2 Kings 6:24

Besieged Samaria Resorts To Cannibalism

²³ So he prepared a great feast for them. When they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. The Aramean raiders did not come into Israel’s land again. ²⁴ Some time later, King Ben-hadad of Aram brought all his military units together and marched up to besiege Samaria. ²⁵ So there was a great famine in Samaria, and they continued the siege against it until a donkey’s head sold for 80 silver shekels, and a cup of dove’s dung sold for five silver shekels.

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1 Kings 20:1

Now Ben-hadad king of Aram assembled his entire army. Thirty-two kings, along with horses and chariots, were with him. He marched up, besieged Samaria, and fought against it.

Deuteronomy 28:52

They will besiege you within all your gates until your high and fortified walls, that you trust in, come down throughout your land. They will besiege you within all your gates throughout the land the Lord your God has given you.

1 Kings 22:31

Now the king of Aram had ordered his 32 chariot commanders, “Do not fight with anyone at all except the king of Israel.”

2 Kings 17:5

Then the king of Assyria invaded the whole land, marched up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years.

2 Kings 18:9

In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Israel’s King Hoshea son of Elah, Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria and besieged it.

2 Kings 25:1

In the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon advanced against Jerusalem with his entire army. They laid siege to the city and built a siege wall against it all around.

Ecclesiastes 9:14

There was a small city with few men in it. A great king came against it, surrounded it, and built large siege works against it.