The sieges of Tyre, Sidon, and Jerusalem were formed.

Jerusalem submitted almost immediately.[14228] Sidon was taken after losing half her defenders by pestilence;[14229] but Tyre continued to resist for the long space of thirteen years.[14230] The continental city was probably taken first.

Against this Nebuchadnezzar could freely employ his whole force--his "horses, his chariots, his companies, and his much people"-- he could bring moveable forts close up to the walls, and cast up banks against them, and batter them with his engines, or undermine them with spade and mattock.

When a breach was effected, he could pour his horse into the streets, and ride down all opposition.

It is the capture of the continental city which Ezekiel describes when he says:[14231] "Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people.