Thematic Bible: Conducted by erecting embankments parallel to the walls of the besieged city

And I will encamp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with posted troops, and I will raise siege works against thee.

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Attacks On Jerusalem Foretold

When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by wielding an axe against them; for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of thee? Only the trees of which thou knowest that they are not trees for food, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it fall.

Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come unto this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither shall he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.

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Attacks On Jerusalem Turned Back