Ezekiel 4:2

American Standard Version (1901)

and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it round about.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ezek 21:22 : 22 In his right hand was the divination [for] Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build forts.
  • Luke 19:42-44 : 42 saying, If thou hadst known in this day, even thou, the things which belong unto peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. 43 For the days shall come upon thee, when thine enemies shall cast up a bank about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, 44 and shall dash thee to the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
  • Jer 6:6 : 6 For thus hath Jehovah of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.
  • Jer 39:1-2 : 1 And it came to pass when Jerusalem was taken, (in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and besieged it; 2 in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city,)
  • Jer 52:4 : 4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 4:1
    86%

    1Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and portray upon it a city, even Jerusalem:

  • Ezek 4:3-4
    2 verses
    85%

    3And take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

    4Moreover lie thou upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it; [according to] the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it, thou shalt bear their iniquity.

  • Isa 29:3
    81%

    3And I will encamp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with posted troops, and I will raise siege works against thee.

  • Nah 3:14
    78%

    14Draw thee water for the siege; strengthen thy fortresses; go into the clay, and tread the mortar; make strong the brickkiln.

  • Ezek 4:7-8
    2 verses
    78%

    7And thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with thine arm uncovered; and thou shalt prophesy against it.

    8And, behold, I lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to the other, till thou hast accomplished the days of thy siege.

  • Ezek 26:8-9
    2 verses
    77%

    8He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field; and he shall make forts against thee, and cast up a mound against thee, and raise up the buckler against thee.

    9And he shall set his battering engines against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.

  • Ezek 21:22
    76%

    22In his right hand was the divination [for] Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build forts.

  • Jer 52:4
    74%

    4And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.

  • Nah 2:1
    74%

    1He that dasheth in pieces is come up against thee: keep the fortress, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.

  • Jer 1:18
    73%

    18For, behold, I have made thee this day a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and brazen walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.

  • Ezek 21:20
    73%

    20Thou shalt appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.

  • Isa 2:15
    73%

    15and upon every lofty tower, and upon every fortified wall,

  • Zeph 1:16
    73%

    16a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.

  • Ezek 21:2
    73%

    2Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop [thy word] toward the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel;

  • Luke 19:43
    72%

    43For the days shall come upon thee, when thine enemies shall cast up a bank about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,

  • Jer 33:4
    72%

    4For thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down [to make a defence] against the mounds and against the sword;

  • Isa 25:12
    72%

    12And the high fortress of thy walls hath he brought down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.

  • Dan 11:15
    72%

    15So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mound, and take a well-fortified city: and the forces of the south shall not stand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to stand.

  • Isa 22:10
    72%

    10and ye numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and ye brake down the houses to fortify the wall;

  • Jer 6:6
    72%

    6For thus hath Jehovah of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.

  • Ezek 11:4
    71%

    4Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.

  • 2 Sam 20:15
    71%

    15And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maacah, and they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart; and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.

  • Ezek 6:2
    71%

    2Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy unto them,

  • Ezek 35:2
    71%

    2Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,

  • Deut 20:12
    71%

    12And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:

  • 2 Kgs 25:1
    71%

    1And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.

  • Ezek 40:2
    71%

    2In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me down upon a very high mountain, whereon was as it were the frame of a city on the south.

  • Ezek 9:1
    71%

    1Then he cried in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause ye them that have charge over the city to draw near, every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.

  • Deut 20:20
    71%

    20Only the trees of which thou knowest that they are not trees for food, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it fall.

  • Zech 12:2
    71%

    2behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling unto all the peoples round about, and upon Judah also shall it be in the siege against Jerusalem.

  • Ezek 24:2
    71%

    2Son of man, write thee the name of the day, [even] of this selfsame day: the king of Babylon drew close unto Jerusalem this selfsame day.

  • Ezek 17:17
    71%

    17Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company help him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts, to cut off many persons.

  • Jer 32:24
    71%

    24Behold, the mounds, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence; and what thou hast spoken is come to pass; and, behold, thou seest it.

  • Jer 21:4
    71%

    4Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans that besiege you, without the walls; and I will gather them into the midst of this city.

  • Jer 46:3
    71%

    3Prepare ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.

  • Eccl 9:14
    70%

    14There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.

  • Ezek 26:4
    70%

    4And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.

  • Amos 3:11
    70%

    11Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: An adversary [there shall be], even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be plundered.

  • Deut 28:52
    70%

    52And they shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fortified walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land; and they shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee.

  • Nah 2:5
    70%

    5He remembereth his nobles: they stumble in their march; they make haste to the wall thereof, and the mantelet is prepared.

  • 2 Kgs 24:10
    70%

    10At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.

  • Ezek 23:24
    70%

    24And they shall come against thee with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a company of peoples; they shall set themselves against thee with buckler and shield and helmet round about; and I will commit the judgment unto them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments.

  • Lam 2:8
    70%

    8Jehovah hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He hath stretched out the line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying; And he hath made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish together.

  • Ezek 36:4
    70%

    4therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Jehovah: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which are become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are round about;

  • 2 Sam 12:28
    70%

    28Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it; lest I take the city, and it be called after my name.

  • Jer 51:12
    70%

    12Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Jehovah hath both purposed and done that which he spake concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.

  • Jer 6:4
    70%

    4Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day declineth, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.