Ezekiel 4:2 “Then lay siege against it: Construct a siege wall, build a ramp to it,…”

Ezekiel 4:2

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

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.

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

And lay siege against it, and builde a fort against it, and cast a mount against it: set the campe also against it, and lay engins of warre against it rounde about.

Darby Translation

and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast a mound against it, and set camps against it, and place battering-rams against it round about.

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.

Bible in Basic English

And make an attack on it, shutting it in, building strong places against it, and making high an earthwork against it; and put up tents against it, placing engines all round it for smashing down its walls.

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Cross references

“lay”

Jeremiah 52:4 Luke 19:42–44 Jeremiah 39:1 Jeremiah 39:2

Jeremiah 52:4 · BSB

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 arou…

Luke 19:42–44 · BSB

and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes.

Jeremiah 39:1 · BSB

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.

Jeremiah 39:2 · BSB

And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, the city was breached.

“battering rams”

Ezekiel 21:22

Ezekiel 21:22 · BSB

In his right hand appears the portent for Jerusalem, where he is to set up battering rams, to call for the slaughter, to lift a battle cry, to direct the battering rams against the gates, to build a ramp, and to erect a…

Also

Jeremiah 6:6

Jeremiah 6:6 · BSB

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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1“Now you, son of man, take a brick, place it before you, and draw on it the city of Jerusalem.

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.

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