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Antiochus, meanwhile, from his positions on the outskirts of Dora, was continually throwing detachments against the town. He constructed siege-engines, and blockaded Trypho, preventing movement in or out. (1 Maccabees 15, 25)
Nine thousand at least took refuge in two exceptionally strong towers with everything they needed to withstand a siege, (2 Maccabees 10, 18)
But Judas and his men invoked the great Sovereign of the world who without battering-ram or siege-engine had overthrown Jericho in the days of Joshua; they then made a fierce assault on the wall. (2 Maccabees 12, 15)
There was once a small town, with only a few inhabitants; a mighty king made war on it, laying siege to it and building great siege-works round it. (Ecclesiastes 9, 14)
Anxious to save the people from ruin, he fortified the city against siege. (Ecclesiasticus 50, 4)
A harsh vision has been shown me, 'The traitor betrays and the despoiler despoils. Advance, Elam, lay siege, Media!' I have cut short all groaning. (Isaiah 21, 2)
Look at the land of the Chaldaeans, a people who used not to exist! Assyria assigned it to the creatures of the wilds; they raised their siege-towers against it, demolished its bastions, reduced it to ruin. (Isaiah 23, 13)
I shall encamp all round you, I shall lay siege to you and mount siege-works against you. (Isaiah 29, 3)
I shall make them eat the flesh of their own sons and daughters: they will eat one another during the siege, in the shortage to which their enemies, and those determined to kill them, will reduce them." (Jeremiah 19, 9)
Meanwhile Pharaoh's army was on the move from Egypt and the Chaldaeans besieging Jerusalem had raised the siege when they heard the news. (Jeremiah 37, 5)
At the time when the Chaldaean army, threatened by Pharaoh's army, had raised the siege of Jerusalem, (Jeremiah 37, 11)
In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon advanced on Jerusalem with his entire army, and they laid siege to it. (Jeremiah 39, 1)
