. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . ering-rams (Ez. iv. 2, ) were brought up to thewalls by means of the bank(Engine ; Ram, Battering),and scaling-ladders might alsobe placed on it. Underminingthe walls is not noticed in the Bible. (Jerusalem.)Burning the gates was a mode of obtaining ingress(Judg. ix. 52). The water-supply would naturally becut off, if possible (Jd. vii. 7). The besieged strength-ened and repaired their fortifications (Is. xxii. 10); re-pelled the enemy from the wall by missiles (2 Sam. ), beams and heavy stones (Judg. ix. 53 ; 2 Sam. ), boiling oil, u
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . ering-rams (Ez. iv. 2, ) were brought up to thewalls by means of the bank(Engine ; Ram, Battering),and scaling-ladders might alsobe placed on it. Underminingthe walls is not noticed in the Bible. (Jerusalem.)Burning the gates was a mode of obtaining ingress(Judg. ix. 52). The water-supply would naturally becut off, if possible (Jd. vii. 7). The besieged strength-ened and repaired their fortifications (Is. xxii. 10); re-pelled the enemy from the wall by missiles (2 Sam. ), beams and heavy stones (Judg. ix. 53 ; 2 Sam. ), boiling oil, use of engines (2 Chr. xxvi. 15),&c.; made sallies to burn the besiegers works (1Mc. vi. 31) and drive them away.—The treatmentof the conquered was extremely severe in ancient times. The bodies of the soldiers killed in actionwere plundered (1 Sam. xxxi. 8 ; 2 Mc. viii. 27); thesurvivors were killed in some savage manner ( 45 ; 2 Sam. xii. 31; 2 Chr. xxv. 12), or mutilated(Judg. i. 6 ; 1 Sara. xi. 2), or carried into captivity. A city taken by assault, and the inhabitants led away captive. ii. 285.) From Kouyunjik. —(Lnyarda Nineveh, (Num. xxxi. 26; Deut. xx. 14). Sometimes the bulkof the population of the conquered country was re-moved to a distant locality. (Captivity.) TheMosaic Law mitigated to a certain extent the sever-ity of the ancient usages toward the the exception of the Canaanites (Canaan 1)who were under an anathema, the Israelites wereto put to death only males bearing arms, to keepalive women and children (xx. 13, 14), to spare fruit-trees (ver. 19), to treat females humanely (xxi. 10-14). The majority of the savage acts recorded as 1174 WAR WAT practised by the Jews were either retaliatory forsome gross provocation (Judg. i. 6, 1; 2 Sam. x. 2-4, xii. 31; 1 Chr. xx. 3), or done by lawless usurp-ers (2 K. xv. 16; compare 1 K. xx. 31). The con-querors celebrated their success by the erection of monumental stones (1 Sam. vii. 12; Pillar), b
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