Ezekiel 4:2

Webster's Bible (1833)

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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  • 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 you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes. 43 For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side, 44 and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn't know the time of your visitation."
  • Jer 6:6 : 6 For thus has Yahweh of Hosts said, Hew you 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 It happened 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 It happened 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.

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  • Ezek 4:1
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    1You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before you, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem:

  • Ezek 4:3-4
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    3Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city: and set your face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

    4Moreover lie you on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; [according to] the number of the days that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity.

  • Isa 29:3
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    3I will encamp against you round about, and will lay siege against you with posted troops, and I will raise siege works against you.

  • Nah 3:14
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    14Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.

  • Ezek 4:7-8
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    7You shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered; and you shall prophesy against it.

    8Behold, I lay bands on you, and you shall not turn you from one side to the other, until you have accomplished the days of your siege.

  • Ezek 26:8-9
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    77%

    8He shall kill with the sword your daughters in the field; and he shall make forts against you, and cast up a mound against you, and raise up the buckler against you.

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

  • Ezek 21:22
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    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
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    4It happened 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
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    1He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your loins! Fortify your power mightily!

  • Jer 1:18
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    18For, behold, I have made you this day a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and brazen walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes of it, against the priests of it, and against the people of the land.

  • Ezek 21:20
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    20You shall 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
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    15For every lofty tower, For every fortified wall,

  • Zeph 1:16
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    16a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.

  • Ezek 21:2
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    2Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and drop [your word] toward the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel;

  • Luke 19:43
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    43For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side,

  • Jer 33:4
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    4For thus says Yahweh, 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 defense] against the mounds and against the sword;

  • Isa 25:12
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    12The high fortress of your walls has 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
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    10and you numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall;

  • Jer 6:6
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    6For thus has Yahweh of Hosts said, Hew you 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
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    4Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, son of man.

  • 2 Sam 20:15
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    15They 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 who were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.

  • Ezek 6:2
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    2Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy to them,

  • Ezek 35:2
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    2Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,

  • Deut 20:12
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    12If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it:

  • 2 Kgs 25:1
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    1It happened 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 on a very high mountain, whereon was as it were the frame of a city on the south.

  • Ezek 9:1
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    1Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause you 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 you know that they are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it fall.

  • Zech 12:2
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    2"Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the surrounding peoples, and on Judah also will it be in the siege against Jerusalem.

  • Ezek 24:2
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    2Son of man, write you the name of the day, [even] of this same day: the king of Babylon drew close to Jerusalem this same 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 to the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence; and what you have spoken has happened; and, behold, you see it.

  • Jer 21:4
    71%

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

  • Jer 46:3
    71%

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

  • Eccl 9:14
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    14There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.

  • Ezek 26:4
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    4They 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
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    11Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "An adversary will overrun the land; And he will pull down your strongholds, And your fortresses will be plundered."

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    5He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place.

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

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

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

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    4therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh 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
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    12Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.

  • Jer 6:4
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    4Prepare you war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe to us! for the day declines, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.