King James Bible Dictionary

Offer of peace must be made to the city before beginning
Deuteronomy 20:10-12

Conducted by erecting embankments parallel to the walls of the besieged city
Deuteronomy 20:19-20; Isaiah 29:3; Isaiah 37:33

Battering rams used in
Battering-Ram

Distress of the inhabitants during
2 Kings 6:24-29; 2 Kings 25:3; Isaiah 9:20; Isaiah 36:12; Jeremiah 19:9

Cannibalism in
2 Kings 6:28-29

Instances of siege:

Of Jericho
2 Kings 6:6

Of Rabbah
2 Samuel 11:1

Of Abel
2 Samuel 20:15

Of Gibbethon
1 Kings 15:27

Of Tirzah
1 Kings 16:17

Of Jerusalem:

By the children of Judah
Judges 1:8

By David
2 Samuel 5:6; 2 Samuel 5:9

By Rezin, king of Syria, and Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel
2 Kings 16:5

By Nebuchadnezzar
2 Kings 24:10-11; Daniel 1:1; 2 Kings 25:1-3; 2 Kings 24:52

By Sennacherib
2 Chronicles 32:1-23

Of Samaria
1 Kings 20:1; 2 Kings 6:24; 2 Kings 17:5; 2 Kings 18:9-11

SIEGE, noun [Latin sigillum.]

1. The setting of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; or the surrounding or investing of a place by an army, and approaching it by passages and advanced works, which cover the besiegers from the enemy's fire. A siege differs from a blockade, as in a siege the investing army approaches the fortified place to attach and reduce it by force; but in a blockade, the army secures all the avenues to the place to intercept all supplies, and waits till famine compels the garrison to surrender.

2. Any continued endeavor to gain possession. Love stood the siege and would not yield his breast.

3. Seat; throne.

4. Rank; place; class.

5. Stool. [Not in use.]

SIEGE, verb transitive To besiege. [Not in use.]