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. ¹ 

He will not attack it with his shield-carrying warriors, ² 

nor will he build siege works against 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 

Luke 19:43

19:43 For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build ¹⁰  an embankment ¹¹  against you and surround you and close in on you from every side.

[19:32]  ¹ tn Heb “there.”

[19:32]  ² tn Heb “[with] a shield.” By metonymy the “shield” stands for the soldier who carries it.

[32:24]  ³ tn Heb “Siege ramps have come up to the city to capture it.”

[32:24]  ⁴ tn Heb “sword.”

[32:24]  ⁵ tn Heb “The Chaldeans.” See the study note on 21:4 for further explanation.

[32:24]  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).

[32:24]  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.

[32:24]  ⁸ tn Heb “And what you said has happened and behold you see it.”

[33:4]  ⁹ tn Heb “the sword.” The figure has been interpreted for the sake of clarity.

[19:43]  ¹⁰ sn Jesus now predicted the events that would be fulfilled in the fall of Jerusalem in a.d. 70. The details of the siege have led some to see Luke writing this after Jerusalem’s fall, but the language of the verse is like God’s exilic judgment for covenant unfaithfulness (Hab 2:8; Jer 6:6, 14; 8:13-22; 9:1; Ezek 4:2; 26:8; Isa 29:1-4). Specific details are lacking and the procedures described (build an embankment against you) were standard Roman military tactics.

[19:43]  ¹¹ sn An embankment refers to either wooden barricades or earthworks, or a combination of the two.