Siege of Jerusalem
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Siege of Jerusalem, Fall of Jerusalem or Sack of Jerusalem may refer to:
Battles
- Siege of Jebus (1010 BCE), a siege by David, king of the United Kingdom of Israel, from biblical narrative
- Sack of Jerusalem (925 BCE), by Pharaoh Shishaq, from biblical narrative
- Assyrian siege of Jerusalem (701 BCE) by Sennacherib, king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
- Siege of Jerusalem (597 BCE) by Nebuchadnezzar II of the Neo-Babylonian Empire
- Siege of Jerusalem (587 BCE) and destruction of the city and the First Temple by Nebuchadnezzar II
- Siege of Jerusalem (162 BCE) by Seleucid general Lysias
- Siege of Jerusalem (134 BCE) by Seleucid king Antiochus VII Sidetes
- Siege of Jerusalem (67 BCE) by Aristobulus II of Judea against his brother, beginning the Hasmonean Civil War
- Siege of Jerusalem (64 BCE) by Hyrcanus II and allied Nabateans against his brother Aristobulus II
- Siege of Jerusalem (63 BCE) by Pompey the Great, intervening in the Hasmonean civil war
- Siege of Jerusalem (37 BCE) by Herod the Great, ending Hasmonean rule over Judea
- Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE) by Titus, ending the major phase of the First Jewish–Roman War
- Sasanian conquest of Jerusalem (614) by Shahrbaraz, part of the Roman-Persian Wars
- Siege of Jerusalem (636–637) by Khalid ibn al-Walid; first Muslim conquest of the city
- 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 Arab 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, board game