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When Demetrius heard this, he was furious, and set out immediately for Ptolemais. He wrote to Jonathan to discontinue the siege and to meet him for a conference at Ptolemais as soon as possible. (1 Maccabees 11, 22)
On hearing this, Jonathan ordered the siege to continue. He selected some elders and priests of Israel and exposed himself to danger (1 Maccabees 11, 23)
In those days Simon besieged Gazara and surrounded it with troops. He made a siege machine, pushed it up against the city, and attacked and captured one of the towers. (1 Maccabees 13, 43)
The men who had been on the siege machine jumped down into the city and caused a great tumult there. (1 Maccabees 13, 44)
When King Antiochus was encamped before Dor, he assaulted it continuously both with troops and with the siege machines he had made. He blockaded Trypho by preventing anyone from going in or out. (1 Maccabees 15, 25)
When at least nine thousand took refuge in two very strong towers, containing everything necessary to sustain a siege, (2 Maccabees 10, 18)
But Judas and his men invoked the aid of the great Sovereign of the world, who, in the day of Joshua, overthrew Jericho without battering-ram or siege machine; then they furiously stormed the ramparts. (2 Maccabees 12, 15)
I will encamp like David against you; I will encircle you with outposts and set up siege works against you. (Isaiah 29, 3)
For thus says the LORD of hosts: Hew down her trees, throw up a siege mound against Jerusalem. Woe to the city marked for punishment; nought but oppression within her! (Jeremiah 6, 6)
Lift your bundle and leave the land, O city living in a state of siege! (Jeremiah 10, 17)
I will have them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters; they shall eat one another's flesh during the strict siege by which their enemies and those who seek their lives will confine them. (Jeremiah 19, 9)
When the Chaldean army lifted the siege of Jerusalem at the threat of the army of Pharaoh, (Jeremiah 37, 11)