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Battering Ram

From: Boyd's Bible Dictionary: B By: James P. Boyd

Ezekiel 4:2; 21:22

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A heavy beam of hard wood, with the end sometimes shaped like a ram, used for battering down the gates and walls of a city (Ezek. 4:2; 21:22²And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about. (Ezekiel 4:2)
²²At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort. (Ezekiel 21:22)).

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