Siege of Jerusalem

Siege of Jerusalem,fall of Jerusalem,orsack of Jerusalemmay refer to:

Battles

• Siege of Jebus(1010 BC), a siege by David, king of the United Kingdom of Israel, from biblical narrative
• Sack of Jerusalem (925 BC),by Pharaoh Shishak, from biblical narrative
• Siege of Jerusalem, during theSyro-Ephraimite War(736–732 BCE)
• Assyrian siege of Jerusalem(701 BCE) by Sennacherib, king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
• Siege of Jerusalem (597 BC)by Nebuchadnezzar II of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, during Judah's first revolt against Babylon
• Siege of Jerusalem (587 BC)and destruction of the city and the First Temple by Nebuchadnezzar II, during Judah's second revolt against Babylon
• Siege of Jerusalem (168 BC) by Seleucid kingAntiochus IV Epiphanesafter revolt byJason
• Siege of Jerusalem (162 BC) by Seleucid generalLysias
• Siege of Jerusalem (134 BC) by Seleucid king Antiochus VII Sidetes during the reign ofJohn Hyrcanus
• Siege of Jerusalem (67 BC) by Aristobulus II of Judea against his brother, beginning theHasmonean Civil War
• Siege of Jerusalem (64 BC) byHyrcanus IIand allied Nabataeans against his brother Aristobulus II
• Siege of Jerusalem (63 BC)by Pompey the Great, intervening in the Hasmonean Civil War
• Siege of Jerusalem (37 BC)by Herod the Great, ending Hasmonean rule over Judea
• Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE)and destruction of the city and the Second Temple by Titus, ending the major phase of the First Jewish–Roman War
• Sasanian conquest of Jerusalem(614) by Shahrbaraz during the Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628
• Siege of Jerusalem (636–637)by Khalid ibn al-Walid during the Muslim conquest of the Levant
• Capture of Jerusalem byAtsiz ibn Uwaq(1073 and 1077), Turcoman mercenary commander
• Siege of Jerusalem (1099)by the Crusaders in the First Crusade
• Siege of Jerusalem (1187)by Saladin, resulting in the capture of the city by the Ayyubid Muslims
• Siege of Jerusalem (1244)by the Khwarezmians, resulting in the recapture of the city from the Christians
• Siege of Jerusalem (1834)by Arab villagers during the 1834 Peasants' revolt in Palestine
• Battle of Jerusalem(1917), the city is captured by British and Commonwealth forces during the Sinai and Palestine campaign of World War I
• Battle for Jerusalemduring the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
• Capture of East Jerusalem by Israel (1967), during theSix-Day War

Other uses

• Siege of Jerusalem(poem),a 14th-century poem depicting the events of 70 CE
• The Siege of Jerusalem,a 1976 board wargame that simulates the events of 70 CE

See also

• Jerusalem attack (disambiguation)
• Timeline of Jerusalem