Biblical Hebrew Forum

["B. M. Rocine" <brocine AT twcny.rr.com>]

Dear Liz,

What if the inhabitants of the city under attack didn't like the choices?
;-0

It was always the inhabitants of the city that forced the siege, never the
aggressor.

Shalom,
Bryan

Liz wrote:

>
> Dear Peter,
> I am not up on Assyrian practices of warfare, but I have
> studied Persian tactics as well as those of Alexander the Great.
> Kings would spend their time and energy primarily on coastal
> cities, and send emissaries to the inland ones. These emissaries
> were not there to threaten the populace with a prolonged siege.
> They gave them a choice in every case: surrender or death.
> In every case, the men who did not surrender were killed, the women
> and children enslaved or killed. That is the case here, they were being
> threatened with death.
> No one in a siege has ever drunk their urine or eaten their dung.
> IF he was threatening a long siege, he would have told them that they
> would soon be eating their children. That's what people do during
> a siege. He was telling them that if they did not surrender they would
> be
> dead.
> Liz
>


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