Lexicon :: Strong's H4692 - māṣôr

“When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it in order to capture it, do not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them, because you can get food from them. Do not cut them down. Are trees of the field human, to come under siege by you?

“You will eat your offspring,[fn] the flesh of your sons and daughters the LORD your God has given you during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you.

“refusing to share with any of them his children’s flesh that he will eat because he has nothing left during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you in all your towns.

“the afterbirth that comes out from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you within your city gates.

At that time the servants of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon marched up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege.

The city was under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.

He built Upper Beth-horon and Lower Beth-horon ​— ​fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars ​— ​

Rehoboam stayed in Jerusalem, and he fortified cities[fn] in Judah.

“This is what King Sennacherib of Assyria says: ‘What are you relying on that you remain in Jerusalem under siege?

Blessed be the LORD,

for he has wondrously shown his faithful love to me

in a city under siege.

Who will bring me to the fortified city?

Who will lead me to Edom?

Gather up your belongings[fn] from the ground,

you who live under siege.

“I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and they will eat each other’s flesh in the distressing siege inflicted on them by their enemies who intend to take their life.’

The city was under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.

“Then lay siege against it: Construct a siege wall, build a ramp, pitch military camps, and place battering rams against it on all sides.

“Face the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared, and prophesy against it.

“You are to burn a third of it in the city when the days of the siege have ended; you are to take a third and slash it with the sword all around the city; and you are to scatter a third to the wind, for I will draw a sword to chase after them.

Now, daughter who is under attack,

you slash yourself in grief;

a siege is set against us!

They are striking the judge of Israel

on the cheek with a rod.

On that day people will come to you

from Assyria and the cities of Egypt,

even from Egypt to the Euphrates River

and from sea to sea

and mountain to mountain.

Draw water for the siege;

strengthen your fortresses.

Step into the clay and tread the mortar;

take hold of the brick-mold!

I will stand at my guard post

and station myself on the lookout tower.

I will watch to see what he will say to me

and what I should[fn] reply about my complaint.

Tyre has built herself a fortress;

she has heaped up silver like dust

and gold like the dirt of the streets.

“Look, I will make Jerusalem a cup that causes staggering for the peoples who surround the city. The siege against Jerusalem will also involve Judah.