You squeeze me in from behind and in front; you place your hand on me.

But take a few strands of hair ¹  from those and tie them in the ends of your garment. ² 

If it does not accept terms of peace but makes war with you, then you are to lay siege to it.

Omri and all Israel went up from Gibbethon and besieged Tirzah.

The king of Assyria marched through ¹  the whole land. He attacked Samaria and besieged it for three years.

King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to the city while his generals were besieging it.

King Tiglath-pileser ¹  of Assyria came, but he gave him more trouble than support. ² 

I will lay siege to you on all sides; ¹  I will besiege you with troops; ²  I will raise siege works against you.

But if you diligently obey him ¹  and do all that I command, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and I will be an adversary to your adversaries.

He sent messengers to Abimelech, who was in Arumah, ¹  reporting, “Beware! ²  Gaal son of Ebed and his brothers are coming ³  to Shechem and inciting the city to rebel against you. ⁴ 

So Saul mustered all his army to go down to Keilah and besiege David and his men. ¹ 

Baasha son of Ahijah, from the tribe of Issachar, conspired against Nadab ¹  and assassinated him in Gibbethon, which was in Philistine territory. This happened while Nadab and all the Israelite army were besieging Gibbethon.

Later King Ben Hadad of Syria assembled his entire army and attacked ¹  and besieged Samaria. ² 

Samaria’s food supply ran out. ¹  They laid siege to it so long that ²  a donkey’s head was selling for eighty shekels of silver ³  and a quarter of a kab ⁴  of dove’s droppings ⁵  for five shekels of silver. ⁶ 

At that time King Rezin of Syria and King Pekah son of Remaliah of Israel attacked Jerusalem. ¹  They besieged Ahaz, ²  but were unable to conquer him. ³ 

If she is a wall, ¹  we will build on her a battlement ²  of silver; but if she is a door, we will barricade ³  her with boards ⁴  of cedar. ⁵ 

I have received a distressing message: ¹  “The deceiver deceives, the destroyer destroys. Attack, you Elamites! Lay siege, you Medes! I will put an end to all the groaning!” ² 

Those who stay in this city will die in battle or of starvation or disease. Those who leave the city and surrender to the Babylonians who are besieging it will live. They will escape with their lives. ¹ 

Now at that time, ¹  the armies of the king of Babylon were besieging Jerusalem. ²  The prophet Jeremiah was confined in the courtyard of the guardhouse ³  attached to the royal palace of Judah.

At that time the Babylonian forces ¹  had temporarily given up their siege against Jerusalem. ²  They had had it under siege, but withdrew when they heard that the army of Pharaoh had set out from Egypt. ³ )