15 Further, he made in Jerusalem engines of war, the invention of engineers, that they might come to be upon the towers+ and upon the corners, to shoot arrows and great stones. Consequently his fame+ went out to a great distance, for he was helped wonderfully until he was strong.

14 There was a little city, and the men* in it were few; and there came to it a great king, and he surrounded it and built against it great strongholds.+

33 “‘Therefore this is what Jehovah has said concerning the king of As·syrʹi·a:+ “He will not come into this city,+ nor will he shoot an arrow there, nor confront it with a shield, nor cast up a siege rampart against it.”’+

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.+

17 And by a great military force and by a multitudinous congregation Pharʹaoh will not make him effective in the war,+ by throwing up a siege rampart and by building a siege wall, in order to cut off many souls.+