2 Kings 18:17
18:17 The king of Assyria sent his commanding general, the chief eunuch, and the chief adviser from Lachish to King Hezekiah in Jerusalem, along with a large army. They went up and arrived at Jerusalem. They went and stood at the conduit of the upper pool which is located on the road to the field where they wash and dry cloth.
2 Kings 19:32
19:32 So this is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria:
“He will not enter this city,
nor will he shoot an arrow here.
He will not attack it with his shield-carrying warriors,
nor will he build siege works against it.
2 Kings 24:11-12
24:11 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to the city while his generals were besieging it.
24:12 King Jehoiachin of Judah, along with his mother, his servants, his officials, and his eunuchs surrendered
to the king of Babylon. The king of Babylon, in the eighth year of his reign,
took Jehoiachin
prisoner.
2 Kings 25:1-4
25:1 So King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem with his whole army and set up camp outside
it. They built siege ramps all around it. He arrived on the tenth day of the tenth month in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign.
25:2 The city remained under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.
25:3 By the ninth day of the fourth month
the famine in the city was so severe the residents
had no food.
25:4 The enemy broke through the city walls,
and all the soldiers tried to escape. They left the city during the night.
They went through the gate between the two walls that is near the king’s garden.
(The Babylonians were all around the city.) Then they headed for the Jordan Valley.
Ezekiel 21:22
21:22 Into his right hand
comes the portent for Jerusalem – to set up battering rams, to give the signal
for slaughter, to shout out the battle cry,
to set up battering rams against the gates, to erect a siege ramp, to build a siege wall.
Matthew 22:7
22:7 The
king was furious! He sent his soldiers, and they put those murderers to death
and set their city
on fire.
Luke 19:43-44
19:43 For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build
an embankment
against you and surround you and close in on you from every side.
19:44 They will demolish you
– you and your children within your walls
– and they will not leave within you one stone
on top of another,
because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”