Ezechiel 4:2
And lay siege against it, and build forts, and cast up a mount, and set a camp against it, and place battering rams round about it.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et ordinabis adversus eam obsidionem, et ædificabis munitiones, et comportabis aggerem, et dabis contra eam castra, et pones arietes in gyro.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ δώσεις ἐπ᾽ αὐτὴν περιοχήν, καὶ οἰκοδομήσεις ἐπ᾽ αὐτὴν προμαχῶνας, καὶ περιβαλεῖς ἐπ᾽ αὐτὴν χάρακα, καὶ δώσεις ἐπ᾽ αὐτὴν παρεμβολάς, καὶ τάξεις τὰς βελοστάσεις κύκλῳ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְנָתַתָּ֨ה עָלֶ֜יהָ מָצ֗וֹר וּבָנִ֤יתָ עָלֶ֨יהָ֙ דָּיֵ֔ק וְשָׁפַכְתָּ֥ עָלֶ֖יהָ סֹֽלְלָ֑ה וְנָתַתָּ֨ה עָלֶ֧יהָ מַחֲנ֛וֹת וְשִׂים עָלֶ֥יהָ כָּרִ֖ים סָבִֽיב
Haydock's commentary
Cast up. The ditch would be about three feet deep, and the earth being thrown up, people might approach the town with less danger. (Worthington)
The besieged were thus also prevented from going out, 4 Kings xxv. 1. Forts or towers were erected to overlook and clear the walls.
Rams. This is the first time we find them mentioned. Homer is silent about them; (Calmet) and the ancient sieges lasted so long, because people had not found out the art of demolishing the walls. (Diodorus ii.)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.