Leviticus 26:25
25And aI will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, bI will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.Deuteronomy 28:52
52“They shall cbesiege you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land. And they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land, which the Lord your God has given you.2 Kings 6:24-29
Ben-hadad’s Siege of Samaria
24Afterward dBen-hadad king of Syria mustered his entire army and went up and besieged Samaria. 25And there was a great famine in Samaria, as they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and the fourth part of a kab ▼ of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver. 26Now as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!” 27And he said, “If the Lord will not help you, how shall I help you? From the threshing floor, or from the winepress?” 28And the king asked her, “What is your trouble?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’ 29 fSo we boiled my son and ate him. And on the next day I said to her, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him.’ But she has hidden her son.”2 Kings 17:5-6
5Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land and came to Samaria, and for three years he besieged it.The Fall of Israel
6In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria gcaptured Samaria, hand he carried the Israelites away to Assyria iand placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of jGozan, and in the cities of kthe Medes.
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