Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Then lay siege to it: Erect siege works against it, build a ramp up to it, set up camps against it and put battering rams around it. New Living Translation Show the city under siege. Build a wall around it so no one can escape. Set up the enemy camp, and surround the city with siege ramps and battering rams. English Standard Version And put siegeworks against it, and build a siege wall against it, and cast up a mound against it. Set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it all around. Berean Standard Bible Then lay siege against it: Construct a siege wall, build a ramp to it, set up camps against it, and place battering rams around it on all sides. King James Bible And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about. New King James Version Lay siege against it, build a siege wall against it, and heap up a mound against it; set camps against it also, and place battering rams against it all around. New American Standard Bible Then lay siege against it, build a siege wall, pile up an assault ramp, set up camps, and place battering rams against it all around. NASB 1995 “Then lay siege against it, build a siege wall, raise up a ramp, pitch camps and place battering rams against it all around. NASB 1977 “Then lay siege against it, build a siege wall, raise up a ramp, pitch camps, and place battering rams against it all around. Legacy Standard Bible Then set a siege against it, build a siege wall against it, raise up a ramp against it, set up camps against it, and place battering rams against it all around. Amplified Bible Then lay siege against it, build a siege wall, raise a ramp against it; set up [enemy] camps and place battering rams all around it. Christian Standard Bible Then lay siege against it: Construct a siege wall, build a ramp, pitch military camps, and place battering rams against it on all sides. Holman Christian Standard Bible Then lay siege against it: construct a siege wall, build a ramp, pitch military camps, and place battering rams against it on all sides. American Standard Version and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it round about. Contemporary English Version Then prepare to attack the brick as if it were a real city. Build a dirt mound and a ramp up to the top and surround the brick with enemy camps. On every side put large wooden poles as though you were going to break down the gate to the city. English Revised Version and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mount against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it round about. GOD'S WORD® Translation Set up a blockade against it, build attack walls around it, put up dirt ramps around it, have troops ready to attack it, and place battering rams all around it. Good News Translation Then, to represent a siege, put trenches, earthworks, camps, and battering rams all around it. International Standard Version You are to lay siege against it, build a rampart around it, set a bulwark against it, encircle it with a berm, set up camps against it, and place battering rams around it. Majority Standard Bible Then lay siege against it: Construct a siege wall, build a ramp to it, set up camps against it, and place battering rams around it on all sides. NET Bible Lay siege to it! Build siege works against it. Erect a siege ramp against it! Post soldiers outside it and station battering rams around it. New Heart English Bible and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it all around. Webster's Bible Translation And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it on every side. World English Bible Lay siege against it, build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it. Also set camps against it and plant battering rams against it all around. Literal Translations Literal Standard Versionand have placed a siege against it, and built a fortification against it, and poured out a mound against it, and placed camps against it, indeed, set battering-rams against it all around. Young's Literal Translation and hast placed against it a siege, and builded against it a fortification, and poured out against it a mount, and placed against it camps, yea, set thou against it battering-rams round about. Smith's Literal Translation And give siege against it, and build a watch tower against it, and cast a mound against it, and give the camp against it, and set battering-rams against it round about. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleAnd lay siege against it, and build forts, and cast up a mount, and set a camp against it, and place battering rams round about it. Catholic Public Domain Version And you shall set up a blockade against it, and you shall build fortifications, and you shall put together a rampart, and you shall encamp opposite it, and you shall place battering rams around it. New American Bible Lay siege to it: build up siege works, raise a ramp against it, pitch camps and set up battering rams all around it. New Revised Standard Version and put siegeworks against it, and build a siege wall against it, and cast up a ramp against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it all around. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleAnd lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast a mount against it; and set some camps also against it, and set battering rams against it round about. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated And make a siege against it and build against it a mound and set ambush against it and make camps encamp against it, and make it battlements as a circle OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and set battering rams against it round about. Brenton Septuagint Translation And thou shalt besiege it, and build works against it, and throw up a mound round about it, and pitch camps against it, and set up engines round about. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context A Sign of Jerusalem's Siege1“Now you, son of man, take a brick, place it before you, and draw on it the city of Jerusalem. 2Then lay siege against it: Construct a siege wall, build a ramp to it, set up camps against it, and place battering rams around it on all sides. 3Then take an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between yourself and the city. Turn your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel.… Cross References 2 Kings 25:1 So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it. Jeremiah 52:4 So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it. Jeremiah 39:1 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army and laid siege to the city. Isaiah 29:3 I will camp in a circle around you; I will besiege you with towers and set up siege works against you. 2 Samuel 20:15 And Joab’s troops came and besieged Sheba in Abel-beth-maacah and built a siege ramp against the outer rampart of the city. As all the troops with Joab were battering the wall to topple it, Jeremiah 6:6 For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Cut down the trees and raise a siege ramp against Jerusalem. This city must be punished; there is nothing but oppression in her midst. Lamentations 2:8 The LORD determined to destroy the wall of the Daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withdraw His hand from destroying. He made the ramparts and walls lament; together they waste away. Isaiah 37:33 So this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: ‘He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow into it. He will not come before it with a shield or build up a siege ramp against it. 2 Kings 19:32 So this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: ‘He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow into it. He will not come before it with a shield or build up a siege ramp against it. Jeremiah 32:24 See how the siege ramps are mounted against the city to capture it. And by sword and famine and plague, the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What You have spoken has happened, as You now see! Luke 19:43 For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side. Matthew 24:2 “Do you see all these things?” He replied. “Truly I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.” Mark 13:2 “Do you see all these great buildings?” Jesus replied. “Not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.” Luke 21:20 But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you will know that her desolation is near. Revelation 20:9 And they marched across the broad expanse of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. But fire came down from heaven and consumed them. Treasury of Scripture And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about. lay Jeremiah 39:1,2 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it… Jeremiah 52:4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about. Luke 19:42-44 Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes… battering rams. Ezekiel 21:22 At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort. Jump to Previous Attack Battering Build Building Camp Camps Cast Earthwork Erect Fort Forts High Lay Making Mound Mount Pitch Places Plant Raise Ramp Rams Round Shutting Side Siege Smashing Strong Tents WallJump to Next Attack Battering Build Building Camp Camps Cast Earthwork Erect Fort Forts High Lay Making Mound Mount Pitch Places Plant Raise Ramp Rams Round Shutting Side Siege Smashing Strong Tents WallEzekiel 4 1. Under type of a siege is shown the time from the defection of Jeroboam to captivity9. By the provision of the siege, is shown the hardness of the famine Then lay siege against it The phrase "lay siege" in the Hebrew context refers to the ancient military practice of surrounding a city to cut off supplies and force surrender. In Ezekiel's time, sieges were common tactics used by empires like Babylon. The Hebrew word for "siege" is "matsor," which conveys the idea of confinement and pressure. This action symbolizes God's judgment on Jerusalem, indicating that the city will be encircled and pressured by its enemies due to its disobedience. The prophetic act serves as a visual warning to the Israelites of the impending Babylonian siege. Build a siege wall Raise a ramp Set up camps Place battering rams around it Build a fort against it.--Rather, a tower. The several acts of a siege are graphically described. First the city is invested; then a tower is built, as was customary, of sufficient height to overlook the walls and thus obtain information of the doings of the besieged. Instruments for throwing stones or darts were also sometimes placed in such towers; next is "cast a mound against it," a common operation of the ancient siege (comp. Isaiah 37:33; Jeremiah 32:24), in which a sort of artificial hill was built to give the besiegers an advantage; then the camps (not merely camp) are set round the city to prevent ingress and egress; and finally "the battering rams" are brought against the walls. These last were heavy beams, headed with iron, and slung in towers, so that they could be swung against the walls with great force. They are frequently to be noticed in the representations of sieges found in the ruins of Nineveh. The practice of forming the end of the beam like a ram's head belongs to the Greeks and Romans; but the instrument itself was much older. . . . Verse 2. - Lay siege against it, etc. The wonder would increase as the spectators looked on what followed. Either tracing the scene on the tablet, or, more probably, as ver. 3 seems to indicate, constructing a model of the scene, the prophet brings before their eyes all the familiar details of a siege, such as we see on numerous Assyrian bas-reliefs: such also as the narratives of the Old Testament bring before us. There are(1) the forts (as in 2 Kings 25:1; Jeremiah 52:4; Ezekiel 17:17; Ezekiel 21:22; Ezekiel 26:8), or, perhaps, the wall of circumvallation, which the besiegers erected that they might carry on their operations in safety; (2) then the mount, or mound (the English of the Authorized Version does not distinguish between the two) of earth from which they plied the bows or catapults (Jeremiah 6:6; Jeremiah 32:24; Jeremiah 33:4; Ezekiel, ut supra); (3) the camps (plural in the Hebrew and Revised Version), or encampments, in which they were stationed in various positions found the city; . . . Hebrew Then layוְנָתַתָּ֨ה (wə·nā·ṯat·tāh) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 5414: To give, put, set siege מָצ֗וֹר (mā·ṣō·wr) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 4692: Something hemming in, a mound, a siege, distress, a fastness against it: עָלֶ֜יהָ (‘ā·le·hā) Preposition | third person feminine singular Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against Construct וּבָנִ֤יתָ (ū·ḇā·nî·ṯā) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 1129: To build a siege wall, דָּיֵ֔ק (dā·yêq) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 1785: Bulwark, siege wall build וְשָׁפַכְתָּ֥ (wə·šā·p̄aḵ·tā) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 8210: To spill forth, to expend, to sprawl out a ramp סֹֽלְלָ֑ה (sō·lə·lāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 5550: A military mound, rampart of besiegers to it, עָלֶ֖יהָ (‘ā·le·hā) Preposition | third person feminine singular Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against set up וְנָתַתָּ֨ה (wə·nā·ṯat·tāh) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 5414: To give, put, set camps מַחֲנ֛וֹת (ma·ḥă·nō·wṯ) Noun - common plural Strong's 4264: An encampment, an army against it, עָלֶ֧יהָ (‘ā·le·hā) Preposition | third person feminine singular Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against and place וְשִׂים־ (wə·śîm-) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular Strong's 7760: Put -- to put, place, set battering rams כָּרִ֖ים (kā·rîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 3733: A ram, a, battering-ram, a meadow, a pad, camel's saddle around it עָלֶ֙יהָ֙ (‘ā·le·hā) Preposition | third person feminine singular Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against on all sides. סָבִֽיב׃ (sā·ḇîḇ) Adverb Strong's 5439: A circle, neighbour, environs, around Links Ezekiel 4:2 NIVEzekiel 4:2 NLT Ezekiel 4:2 ESV Ezekiel 4:2 NASB Ezekiel 4:2 KJV Ezekiel 4:2 BibleApps.com Ezekiel 4:2 Biblia Paralela Ezekiel 4:2 Chinese Bible Ezekiel 4:2 French Bible Ezekiel 4:2 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Ezekiel 4:2 And lay siege against it and build (Ezek. 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