Fondare 68 Risultati per: Siege
The king sought a divine oracle about the war then levied on him by Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon; would the Lord grant his people wondrous deliverance as of old? Would the siege be raised? (Jeremiah 21, 2)
Here are siege-works raised to reduce the city; sword and famine and pestilence are giving it over to the Chaldaeans for their prey; of all thou hast threatened thou seest here the fulfilment. (Jeremiah 32, 24)
Ruined houses of Jerusalem, ruined palace of the kings of Juda, what has the Lord to tell thee about these? …… to siege and sword. (Jeremiah 33, 4)
These, at my command, shall march on this city again, lay siege to it, and capture it, and burn it to the ground; and I will make the townships of Juda into a desert, never a soul to dwell there. (Jeremiah 34, 22)
Jeremias was still free to come and go as he pleased among his fellow-citizens; they had not yet imprisoned him. At this time, Pharao’s army was on the march, advancing from the Egyptian frontier; and the Chaldaeans, this news reaching them, had raised the siege of Jerusalem. (Jeremiah 37, 4)
And now, while Pharao still threatened, and the Chaldaeans had raised the siege, (Jeremiah 37, 10)
Sedecias had been reigning for eight years and ten months in Juda when Nabu-chodonosor king of Babylon led his armies to the siege of Jerusalem; (Jeremiah 39, 1)
And now, in the ninth year of Sedecias’ reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nabuchodonosor reached Jerusalem at the head of his army. They surrounded it and threw up siege works about it, (Jeremiah 52, 4)
a breach was made in the walls; and that night all the fighting men made their escape by way of the gate between the two walls, by the royal garden, leaving the Chaldaeans to continue the siege of the city. They chose for their flight the road which leads to the desert, (Jeremiah 52, 7)
This thou art to beleaguer; siege-works built, mound raised, camp pitched, battering-rams all around.✻ (Ezekiel 4, 2)
And therewithal get thee an iron cooking-pan, that shall make a ring of iron between thee and this city of thine; look closely as thou wilt, here is siege complete. So thou shalt beleaguer it; a sign, this, for the race of Israel. (Ezekiel 4, 3)
I hold thee enchained, and never shalt thou turn from one side to other, till the days of thy siege are over.✻ (Ezekiel 4, 8)
