SIEGE

SIEGE. → An offer of peace must be made to the city before beginning a De 20:10-12 → Conducted by erecting embankments parallel to the walls of the besieged city De 20:19,20; Isa 29:3; 37:33 → Battering-rams used in
* See BATTERING-RAMS

→ Distress of the inhabitants during a 2Ki 6:24-29; 25:3; Isa 9:20; 36:12; Jer 19:9 → Cannibalism during a 2Ki 6:28,29 → INSTANCES OF
* Jericho Jos 6
* Rabbah 2Sa 11:1
* Abel 2Sa 20:15
* Gibbethon 1Ki 15:27
* Tirzah 1Ki 16:17
* Jerusalem
* By the sons of Judah Jud 1:8
* By David 2Sa 5:6,9
* By Rezin, king of Syria, and Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel 2Ki 16:5
* By Nebuchadnezzar 2Ki 24:10,11; Da 1:1; 2Ki 25:1-3; Jer 52
* By Sennacherib 2Ch 32:1-23
* Samaria 1Ki 20:1; 2Ki 6:24; 17:5; 18:9-11

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siege. Siege, n. the beseiging of any place, a seat, a stool

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Siege (?), n. [[OE. sege, OF. siege, F. siège a seat, a siege; cf. It. seggia, seggio, zedio, a seat, asseggio, assedio, a siege, F. assiéger to besiege, It. & LL. assediare, L. obsidium a siege, besieging; all ultimately fr. L. sedere to sit. See Sit, and cf. See, n.]] 1. 1. A seat; especially, a royal seat; a throne. “Upon the very siege of justice.” Shak.
A stately siege of sovereign majesty, And thereon sat a woman gorgeous gay. Spenser. In our great hall there stood a vacant chair . . . And Merlin called it “The siege perilous.” Tennyson. 2. 2. Hence, place or situation; seat.
Ah! traitorous eyes, come out of your shameless siege forever. Painter (Palace of Pleasure). 3. 3. Rank; grade; station; estimation.
I fetch my life and being From men of royal siege. Shak. 4. 4. Passage of excrements; stool; fecal matter.
The siege of this mooncalf. Shak. 5. 5. The sitting of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; 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. See the Note under Blockade.
6. 6. Hence, a continued attempt to gain possession.
Love stood the siege, and would not yield his breast. Dryden. 7. 7. The floor of a glass-furnace.
8. 8. A workman's bench. Knught.
Siege gun, a heavy gun for siege operations. — Siege train, artillery adapted for attacking fortified places.