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 * Sack of Jerusalem (925 BC), by Pharaoh Shishak, from biblical narrative * Siege of Jerusalem, during the

Syro-Ephraimite War The Syro-Ephraimite War was a conflict which took place in the 8th century BCE between the Kingdom of Judah and an alliance of Aram-Damascus and the Kingdom of Israel based in Samaria. One theory states that the war's sole goal was to force j ...

(736–732 BCE) *

Assyrian siege of Jerusalem The Assyrian siege of Jerusalem () was an aborted siege of Jerusalem, then capital of the Kingdom of Judah, carried out by Sennacherib, king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. The siege concluded Sennacharib's campaign in the Levant, in which he att ...

(701 BCE) by Sennacherib, king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire *

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, and its king Jeconiah was ...

by Nebuchadnezzar II of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, during Judah's first revolt against Babylon *

Siege of Jerusalem (587 BC) The siege of Jerusalem ( 589–587 BC) was the final event of the Judahite revolts against Babylon, in which Nebuchadnezzar II, king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, besieged Jerusalem, the capital city of the Kingdom of Judah. Jerusalem fell a ...

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 king

Antiochus IV Epiphanes Antiochus IV Epiphanes ( 215 BC–November/December 164 BC) was king of the Seleucid Empire from 175 BC until his death in 164 BC. Notable events during Antiochus' reign include his near-conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt, his persecution of the Jews of ...

after revolt by

Jason Jason ( ; ) was an ancient Greek mythological hero and leader of the Argonauts, whose quest for the Golden Fleece is featured in Greek literature. He was the son of Aeson, the rightful king of Iolcos. He was married to the sorceress Med ...

* Siege of Jerusalem (162 BC) by Seleucid general

Lysias Lysias (; ; c. 445 – c. 380 BC) was a Logographer (legal), 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 Samothrac ...

* Siege of Jerusalem (134 BC) by Seleucid king Antiochus VII Sidetes during the reign of

John Hyrcanus John Hyrcanus (; ; ) was a Hasmonean (Maccabee, Maccabean) leader and Jewish High Priest of Israel of the 2nd century BCE (born 164 BCE, reigned from 134 BCE until he died in 104 BCE). In rabbinic literature he is often referred to as ''Yoḥana ...

* Siege of Jerusalem (67 BC) by Aristobulus II 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 Nabataeans against his brother Aristobulus II *

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 *

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 Ma ...

by Herod the Great, ending Hasmonean rule over Judea *

Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE) The siege of Jerusalem in 70 CE was the decisive event of the First Jewish–Roman War (66–73 CE), a major rebellion against Roman rule in the province of Judaea. Led by Titus, Roman forces besieged the Jewish capital, which had beco ...

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 The Sasanian conquest of Jerusalem in early 614 was a significant event in the Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628. After the conquest of Jerusalem and the defeat of the Byzantines, Khosrow II ordered to transfer the true cross to Tisophon. ...

(614) by Shahrbaraz during the Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628 *

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 during the Muslim conquest of the Levant * Capture of Jerusalem by Atsiz ibn Uwaq (1073 and 1077), Turcoman mercenary commander *

Siege of Jerusalem (1099) The siege of Jerusalem marked the successful end of the First Crusade, whose objective was the recovery of the city of Jerusalem and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre from Islamic control. The five-week siege began on 7 June 1099 and was carrie ...

by the Crusaders in the First Crusade *

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 organ ...

by Saladin, resulting in the capture of the city by the Ayyubid Muslims *

Siege of Jerusalem (1244) The siege of Jerusalem of 1244 took place after the Sixth Crusade, when a Khwarazmian army conquered the city on July 15, 1244. Prelude Emperor Frederick II of the Holy Roman Empire led the Sixth Crusade from 1228 to 1229 and claimed the ...

by the Khwarezmians, resulting in the recapture of the city from the Christians *

Siege of Jerusalem (1834) The siege of Jerusalem of 1834 took place during the Peasants' revolt in Palestine, which erupted following the entry of Egyptian general Ibrahim Pasha into Ottoman Syria and his subsequent military conscription demand upon the Arab villag ...

by Arab villagers during the 1834 Peasants' revolt in Palestine *

Battle of Jerusalem The Battle of Jerusalem also known as the Fall 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 s ...

(1917), the city is captured by British and Commonwealth forces during the Sinai and Palestine campaign of World War I *

Battle for Jerusalem The Battle for Jerusalem took place during the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine, 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 Isra ...

during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War * Capture of East Jerusalem by Israel (1967), during the

Six-Day War The Six-Day War, also known as the June War, 1967 Arab–Israeli War or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab world, Arab states, primarily United Arab Republic, Egypt, Syria, and Jordan from 5 to 10June ...

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* ''Siege of Jerusalem'' (poem), a 14th-century poem depicting the events of 70 CE * ''

The Siege of Jerusalem ''The Siege of Jerusalem, 70 A.D.'' is a board wargame published by Historical Perspectives in 1976 that simulates the Roman attack on Jerusalem by Cestius Gallus. The game was subsequently bought by Avalon Hill, revised and republished in 1989. ...

'', a 1976 board wargame that simulates the events of 70 CE

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