15 And they proceeded to come and lay siege against him in Abel of Beth-maʹa·cah and cast up a siege rampart against the city,+ as it was standing within a rampart. And all the people that were with Joʹab were undermining the wall, to throw it down.

6 For this is what Jehovah of armies has said: “Cut down wood*+ and throw up against Jerusalem a siege rampart.+ She is the city with which an accounting must be held.+ She is nothing but oppression in the midst of her.+

24 Look! With siege ramparts+ men have come to the city to capture it,+ and the very city will certainly be given into the hand of the Chal·deʹans who are fighting against it,+ because of the sword+ and the famine+ and the pestilence;+ and what you have said has happened, and here you are seeing [it].+

8 Your* dependent towns in the field he will kill even with the sword, and he must make against you a siege wall and throw up against you a siege rampart+ and raise up against you a large shield;