Siege of Jerusalem, Fall of Jerusalem or Sack of Jerusalem may refer to:
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Siege of Jebus
The siege of Jebus is described in passages of the Hebrew Bible as having occurred when the Israelites, led by King David, besieged and conquered the Canaanite city of Jerusalem, then known as ''Jebus'' (, , ). The Israelites gained access to the ...
(1010 BC), a siege by David, king of the United Kingdom of Israel, from biblical narrative
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Sack of Jerusalem (925 BC), by Pharaoh Shishaq, from biblical narrative
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Assyrian siege of Jerusalem (701 BCE) by Sennacherib, king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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Siege of Jerusalem (597 BC)
The siege of Jerusalem (597 BC) was a military campaign carried out by Nebuchadnezzar II, king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, in which he besieged Jerusalem, then capital of the Kingdom of Judah. The city surrendered, with king Jeconiah of Jud ...
by Nebuchadnezzar II of the Neo-Babylonian Empire
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Siege of Jerusalem (587 BC) and destruction of the city and the First Temple by Nebuchadnezzar II
*Siege of Jerusalem (162 BC) by Seleucid general
Lysias
Lysias (; el, Λυσίας; c. 445 – c. 380 BC) was a logographer (speech writer) in Ancient Greece. He was one of the ten Attic orators included in the "Alexandrian Canon" compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace i ...
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Siege of Jerusalem (134 BC) by Seleucid king
Antiochus VII Sidetes
Antiochus VII Euergetes ( el, Ἀντίοχος Ευεργέτης; c. 164/160 BC129 BC), nicknamed Sidetes ( el, Σιδήτης) (from Side, a city in Asia Minor), also known as Antiochus the Pious, was ruler of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire ...
*Siege of Jerusalem (67 BCE) by
Aristobulus II
Aristobulus II (, grc, Ἀριστόβουλος ''Aristóboulos'') was the Jewish High Priest and King of Judea, 66 BCE to 63 BCE, from the Hasmonean dynasty.
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Aristobulus was the younger son of Alexander Jannaeus, King and High Pries ...
of Judea against his brother, beginning the Hasmonean Civil War
*Siege of Jerusalem (64 BC) by
Hyrcanus II
John Hyrcanus II (, ''Yohanan Hurqanos'') (died 30 BCE), a member of the Hasmonean dynasty, was for a long time the Jewish High Priest in the 1st century BCE. He was also briefly King of Judea 67–66 BCE and then the ethnarch (ruler) of J ...
and allied Nabateans against his brother Aristobulus II
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Siege of Jerusalem (63 BC)
The siege of Jerusalem (63 BC) occurred during Pompey the Great's campaigns in the East, shortly after his successful conclusion of the Third Mithridatic War. Pompey had been asked to intervene in a dispute over inheritance to the throne of t ...
by Pompey the Great, intervening in the Hasmonean civil war
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Siege of Jerusalem (37 BC)
Herod the Great's siege of Jerusalem (37 or 36 BC) was the final step in his campaign to secure the throne of Judea. Aided by Roman forces provided by Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony), Herod was able to capture the city and depose Antigonus II M ...
by Herod the Great, ending Hasmonean rule over Judea
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Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE)
The siege of Jerusalem of 70 CE was the decisive event of the First Jewish–Roman War (66–73 CE), in which the Roman army led by future emperor Titus besieged Jerusalem, the center of Jewish rebel resistance in the Roman province of Ju ...
by Titus, ending the major phase of the First Jewish–Roman War
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Sasanian conquest of Jerusalem
The Sasanian conquest of Jerusalem occurred after a brief siege of the city by the Sasanian military in 614 CE, and was a significant event in the Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628 that took place after the Sasanian king Khosrow II appointed ...
(614) by Shahrbaraz, part of the Roman-Persian Wars
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Siege of Jerusalem (636–637)
The siege of Jerusalem (636–637) was part of the Muslim conquest of the Levant and the result of the military efforts of the Rashidun Caliphate against the Byzantine Empire in the year 636–637/38. It began when the Rashidun army, under ...
by Khalid ibn al-Walid; first Muslim conquest of the city
*Capture of Jerusalem by
Atsiz ibn Uwaq (1073 and 1077), Turcoman mercenary commander
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Siege of Jerusalem (1099)
The siege of Jerusalem (7 June – 15 July 1099) was waged by European forces of the First Crusade, resulting in the capture of the Holy City of Jerusalem from the Muslim Fatimid Caliphate, and laying the foundation for the Christian Kingdom of ...
by the Crusaders in the First Crusade
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Siege of Jerusalem (1187)
The siege of Jerusalem lasted from 20 September to 2 October 1187, when Balian of Ibelin surrendered the city to Saladin. Earlier that summer, Saladin had defeated the kingdom's army and conquered several cities. Balian was charged with org ...
by Saladin, resulting in the capture of the city by the Ayyubid Muslims
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Siege of Jerusalem (1244) by the Khwarezmians, resulting in the recapture of the city from the Christians
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Siege of Jerusalem (1834) by Arab villagers during the 1834 Arab revolt in Palestine
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Battle of Jerusalem
The Battle of Jerusalem occurred during the British Empire's "Jerusalem Operations" against the Ottoman Empire, in World War I, when fighting for the city developed from 17 November, continuing after the surrender until 30 December 1917, to ...
(1917), the city is captured by British and Commonwealth forces during the Sinai and Palestine campaign of World War I
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Battle for Jerusalem
The Battle for Jerusalem took place during the 1947–1948 civil war phase of the 1947–1949 Palestine war. It saw Jewish and Arab militias in Mandatory Palestine, and later the militaries of Israel and Transjordan, fight for control over ...
during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
*Capture of East Jerusalem by Israel (1967), during the
Six-Day War
The Six-Day War (, ; ar, النكسة, , or ) or June War, also known as the 1967 Arab–Israeli War or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states (primarily Egypt, Syria, and Jordan) from 5 to 10 Ju ...
Other uses
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''Siege of Jerusalem'' (poem), a 14th-century poem depicting the events of 70 CE
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The Siege of Jerusalem'', a 1976 board wargame that simulates the events of 70 CE
See also
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Timeline of Jerusalem
This is a timeline of major events in the History of Jerusalem; a city that had been fought over sixteen times in its history. During its long history, Jerusalem has been destroyed twice, besieged 23 times, attacked 52 times, and captured and re ...
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Lists of battles