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Because of the siege the famine in Samaria was so severe that an ass's head sold for eighty pieces of silver, and a fourth of a kab of wild onion for five pieces of silver. (2 Kings 6, 25)
Then King Hazael of Aram mounted a siege against Gath. When he had taken it, Hazael decided to go on to attack Jerusalem. (2 Kings 12, 18)
In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea, son of Elah, king of Israel, Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, attacked Samaria, laid siege to it, (2 Kings 18, 9)
"Therefore, thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria: 'He shall not reach this city, nor shoot an arrow at it, nor come before it with a shield, nor cast up siege-works against it. (2 Kings 19, 32)
At that time the officials of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, attacked Jerusalem, and the city came under siege. (2 Kings 24, 10)
In the tenth month of the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and his whole army advanced against Jerusalem, encamped around it, and built siege walls on every side. (2 Kings 25, 1)
The siege of the city continued until the eleventh year of Zedekiah. (2 Kings 25, 2)
"King Sennacherib of Assyria has this to say: On what are you relying, while you remain under siege in Jerusalem? (2 Chronicles 32, 10)
They passed through Idumea and camped before Beth-zur. For many days they attacked it; they constructed siege-devices, but the besieged made a sortie and burned these, and they fought bravely. (1 Maccabees 6, 31)
He made peace with the men of Beth-zur, and they evacuated the city, because they had no food there to enable them to stand a siege, for that was a sabbath year in the land. (1 Maccabees 6, 49)
He came and pitched his camp before Bethbasi, and constructing siege-machines, he fought against it for many days. (1 Maccabees 9, 64)
He struck down Odomera and his kinsmen and the sons of Phasiron in their encampment; these men had set out to go up to the siege with their forces. (1 Maccabees 9, 66)