Ezekiel 4:2

4:2 Lay siege to it! Build siege works against it. Erect a siege ramp ¹  against it! Post soldiers outside it ²  and station battering rams around it.

Jeremiah 32:24

32:24 Even now siege ramps have been built up around the city ³  in order to capture it. War, ⁴  starvation, and disease are sure to make the city fall into the hands of the Babylonians ⁵  who are attacking it. ⁶  Lord, ⁷  you threatened that this would happen. Now you can see that it is already taking place. ⁸ 

Jeremiah 33:4

33:4 For I, the Lord God of Israel, have something more to say about the houses in this city and the royal buildings which have been torn down for defenses against the siege ramps and military incursions of the Babylonians: ⁹ 

Jeremiah 52:4

52:4 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem with his whole army and set up camp outside it. ¹⁰  They built siege ramps all around it. He arrived on the tenth day of the tenth month in the ninth year that Zedekiah ruled over Judah. ¹¹ 

¹ tn Or “a barricade.”

² tn Heb “set camps against it.”

³ tn Heb “Siege ramps have come up to the city to capture it.”

⁴ tn Heb “sword.”

⁵ tn Heb “The Chaldeans.” See the study note on 21:4 for further explanation.

⁶ tn Heb “And the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it because of the sword, starvation, and disease.” The verb “has been given” is one of those perfects that view the action as good as done (the perfect of certainty or prophetic perfect).

⁷ tn The word “Lord” is not in the text but is supplied in the translation as a reminder that it is he who is being addressed.

⁸ tn Heb “And what you said has happened and behold you see it.”

⁹ tn Heb “the sword.” The figure has been interpreted for the sake of clarity.

¹⁰ tn Or “against.”

¹¹ sn This would have been January 15, 588 b.c. The reckoning is based on the calendar that begins the year in the spring (Nisan = March/April).