There was a little city, and few men in it; and a great king came against it and besieged it, and built huge bulwarks against it.
And it happened after this Ben-hadad king of Syria gathered all his army and went up and lay siege to Samaria.
This wisdom I have seen also under the sun, and it seemed great to me.
For the days will come on you that your enemies will raise up a rampart to you, and will surround you, and will keep you in on every side.
Only the trees which you know that they are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down. And you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it is subdued.