...tops of which were on a level with the walls of the besieged fortress. Thus, Ezekiel says, 1 siege. " lay siege against it, and build a fort against it,...against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering-rams against it round about." Various modes of assault are in this verse described, and they...

...sculptures, are frequently alluded to in Scripture. Ezekiel,* prophesying of Jerusalem, exclaims, " Lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mound against it ; set the camp also against, and set tottering-rams against it round about :" and...

...round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee." 1 " And lay siege against it, and build a fort against...against it ; set the camp also against it, and set batteringrams against it round about." 2 " For thus hath the Lord of Hosts said, Hew ye down trees,...

...of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem : 2 5 "He will not regard any ransom ; neither will he...forth. » Heb. of his soul. ' Heb. haughty cyfi. 7 3 Moreover take thou unto thee san iron pan, and set \tfor a wall of iron between thee and the city...

...pillar;" |||| "Thou hast broken the yokes of wood, but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron;" §§ " Moreover, take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron, and set it between thee and the city; "IT IT " They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of...

...(Deut. xx. 19, 20). Ezekiel alludes to all these modes of attack : — " Lay siege against (Jerusalem), 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 " (iv. 2). Archers on the walls hurled stones from slings, and...

...the city, even Jerusalem."] — Make thee upon a tile a model or draught of the city Jerusalem. 2. " And lay siege against it, and build a fort against...it, and set battering rams against it round about."] — And then make the model of a siege laid against that so pourtrayed city, in all the representations...

...hundred and twenty thousand years, inscribed on baked bricks." — PLIN. Hint, nat, 1. VII. c. 57. 2. And lay siege against it, and build a fort against...it, and set battering rams against it round about. This is the earliest mention of the battering ram. Pliny says — EZEKIEL VI. 18. Then shall ye know...

...hundred and twenty thousand years, inscribed on baked bricks."—PLIN. Hist. nat. 1. vil. c. 57. 2. And lay siege against it, and build a fort against...it: set the camp also against it, and set battering ranis against it round about. This is the earliest mention of the battering ram. Pliny says— EZEKIEL...

...the city, even Jerusalem."] — Make thee upon a tile a model or draught of the city Jerusalem. 2. "And lay siege against it, and build a fort against...a mount against it ; set the camp also against it, an1l set batter ing rams against it round about."] — And then make the model of a siege laid against...