Siege of Jerusalem

Siege of Jerusalem, fall of Jerusalem, or sack of Jerusalem may 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 the Syro-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 king Antiochus IV Epiphanes after revolt by Jason
• Siege of Jerusalem (162 BC) by Seleucid general Lysias
• Siege of Jerusalem (134 BC) by Seleucid king Antiochus VII Sidetes during the reign of John Hyrcanus
• 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 and 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 by Atsiz 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 Jerusalem during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
• Capture of East Jerusalem by Israel (1967), during the Six-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