Thematic Bible: For sieges:
Thematic Bible
military Arms » For sieges: » Armories built for
Hezekiah listened to them, and showed them all his treasure house, the silver and the gold and the spices and the precious oil and the house of his armor and all that was found in his treasuries. There was nothing in his house nor in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.
Built
On which are
All the round
military Arms » For sieges: » Put on at the first alarm
"Line up the shield and buckler, And draw near for the battle! "Harness the horses, And mount the steeds, And take your stand with helmets on! Polish the spears, Put on the scale-armor!
And give ear, all remote places of the earth.
Gird yourselves, yet be
Gird yourselves, yet be
military Arms » For sieges: » Battering rams
They came and besieged him in Abel Beth-maacah, and they cast up a siege ramp against the city, and it stood by the rampart; and all the people who were with Joab were wreaking destruction in order to topple the wall.
Then lay siege against it, build a siege wall, raise up a ramp, pitch camps and place battering rams against it all around.
military Arms » For sieges: » Engines for casting stones, &c
In Jerusalem he made engines of war invented by skillful men to be on the towers and on the corners for the purpose of shooting arrows and great stones. Hence his fame spread afar, for he was marvelously helped until he was strong.
military Arms » For sieges: » Great stores of, prepared
And he took courage and rebuilt all the wall that had been broken down and erected towers on it, and built another outside wall and strengthened the Millo in the city of David, and made weapons and shields in great number.
military Arms » For sieges: » Not worn in ordinary times
David said to Ahimelech, “Now is there not a spear or a sword on hand? For I brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s matter was urgent.”