Thematic Bible: Those engaged in
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Sieges » Those engaged in » Called upon the city to surrender
When they called for the King, Hilkiah's son Eliakim, who managed the household, Shebnah the scribe, and Asaph's son Joah the recorder went out to them.
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Then he sent envoys to visit King Ahab of Israel and told him, "This is what Ben-hadad says: "Your silver and gold belong to me. So do the most beautiful of your wives and children.'"
""Why are you so confident? You're saying but they're only empty words "I have enough advice and resources to conduct warfare!'
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Sieges » Those engaged in » Employed battering rams, &c against the walls
""He'll direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and will breach your fortified towers with axes.
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You are to lay siege against it, build a rampart around it, set a bulwark against it, encircle it with a berm, set up camps against it, and place battering rams around it.
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Sieges » Those engaged in » Built forts and mounts
He'll execute your citizens who live on the mainland with swords. He'll build siege engines to attack you. Then he'll construct siege ramps against you and build huge shields to protect themselves against you.
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You are to lay siege against it, build a rampart around it, set a bulwark against it, encircle it with a berm, set up camps against it, and place battering rams around it.
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Sieges » Those engaged in » Cast arrows and other missiles into the city
"Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning the king of Assyria: "Not only will he not approach this city or shoot an arrow in its direction, he won't approach it with so much as a shield, nor will he throw up a siege ramp against it.
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Sieges » Those engaged in » Invested the city on every side
""They'll invade you with weapons, chariots, wagons, and a vast army. They'll set themselves in place to attack you from every direction with large shields, small shields, and helmets. I'll turn over judgment to them, and they'll punish you according to their own standards.
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Sieges » Those engaged in » Cut off all supplies
I myself dug for and drank foreign water. With the sole of my foot I dried up all the streams of Egypt!"
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Sieges » Those engaged in » A large amount » Suffered
"Son of Man, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon made his army work very hard to attack Tyre. They tore their hair out and rubbed their shoulders raw! Despite all of that work trying to capture Tyre, neither he nor his army got paid from Tyre for all that!
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Sieges » Those engaged in » Frequently laid ambushes
So Abimelech and his entire army got up that night and waited in ambush against Shechem in four separate companies.
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Sieges » Those engaged in » Dug a trench round the city
because the days will come when your enemies will build walls around you, surround you, and close you in on every side.
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