Lexicon :: Strong's H6696 - ṣûr

“When you besiege a city for [fn]a long time, making war against it in order to capture it, you shall not destroy its [fruit-bearing] trees by swinging an axe against them; for you may eat from them, and you shall not cut them down. For is the tree of the field a man, that it should be besieged (destroyed) by you?

Then it happened in the spring, [fn]at the time when the kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all [the fighting men of] Israel, and they destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem.

He cast the two pillars of bronze; the one pillar was eighteen cubits high, and a [measuring] line of twelve cubits measured the circumference of both.

Ben-hadad king of Aram (Syria) gathered all his army together; thirty-two kings were [allied] with him, with horses and chariots. And he went up and besieged Samaria [Israel’s capital], and fought against it.

But it came about after this, that Ben-hadad king of Aram (Syria) gathered his whole army together and went up and besieged Samaria.

Then Rezin the king of Aram (Syria) and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to wage war. They besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome and conquer him.

Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land [of Israel] and went up to [fn]Samaria and besieged it for three years.

Now in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh of Hoshea the son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser the king of Assyria went up against Samaria and besieged it.

Then it happened at the end of the year, [fn]at the time when kings go out to battle, Joab led out the army and ravaged and devastated the land of the Ammonites, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem [with Bathsheba]. Joab struck Rabbah and overthrew it.

“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, if there are [migratory] locusts or grasshoppers, if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities, whatever plague or whatever sickness there is,

You have enclosed me behind and before,

And [You have] placed Your hand upon me.

“If she is a wall (discreet, womanly),

We will build on her a turret (dowry) of silver;

But if she is a door (bold, flirtatious),

We will enclose her with planks of cedar.”

A harsh vision has been shown to me;

The treacherous one deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys.

Go up, Elam! Lay siege, Media!

All the groaning [caused by Babylon’s ruthless oppressions] I [the LORD] have brought to an end.

I will camp against you and encircle you,

And I will hem you in with siege works,

And I will raise fortifications against you.

Now regarding the capture of Jerusalem: In the ninth year of [the reign of] Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and besieged it;

In the third year of the reign of [fn]Jehoiakim king of Judah, [fn]Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.