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When a city must be taken by force of arms, and thou hast been a long time besieging it, do not lay waste the whole countryside with thy axe, and destroy the trees that yield food. Trees are not men, to increase the number of the city’s defenders. (Deuteronomy 20, 19)
and now the Lord promised to make Josue master of it, with its king and all its defenders. (Joshua 6, 2)
And now the defenders looked back from their pursuit of Josue, and saw the smoke rising up to heaven. Refuge was none before or behind; at an end, now, the feigned flight and the retreat towards the desert; everywhere the pursuers met with resistance. (Joshua 8, 20)
There was a high tower in the middle of the city, in which men and women alike had taken refuge, all the chief magistrates of the city among them. Its doors were stoutly barred, and there were battlements on its roof behind which the defenders stood. (Judges 9, 51)
and march on the city from the west. The defenders of the city had been lured out of it by the ten thousand Israelites who came to the attack; so that now things went ill with the army of Benjamin; they were surrounded on all sides unawares. (Judges 20, 34)
So, when he next made an assault upon the city, Joab gave Urias the post where he knew the defenders were strongest; (2 Samuel 11, 16)
And with that she went in, and spoke to the defenders in the wisdom that was her craft; whereupon they cut off the head of Seba, son of Bochri, and cast it down to Joab. So he blew his trumpet, and his men raised the siege and went to their tents; Joab himself went back to the king’s court at Jerusalem. (2 Samuel 20, 22)
the defenders of it told him, Thou shalt never make thy way in here. But take it he did, the keep of Sion that is called David’s Keep. (1 Chronicles 11, 5)
Scale we yonder heights, to prove Achior a liar, and when we have mastered the defenders, let Achior be put to the sword with the rest. (Judith 5, 28)
loud rang the cry of the Assyrian camp, when the hard-pressed defenders sallied out against them, parched with thirst! (Judith 16, 13)
These he chased into their strongholds and besieged them there; laid them under a ban✻ and burned the strongholds to the ground, with their defenders in them. (1 Maccabees 5, 5)
But some of the defenders slipped out; and these, with traitors of Israelite stock to support them, (1 Maccabees 6, 21)
