Trench
TRENCH
A passage of approach to the walls of a besieged city, like a deep ditch; the earth thrown up constituting a wall. The Redeemer, weeping over Jerusalem a few days before he was crucified under its walls, said, “The days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,” Luk 19:43 . The Romans fulfilled this prediction by enclosing the entire city of Jerusalem by a wall, that the Jews might neither escape nor be relieved from without. In 1Sa 26:5, “trench” appears to mean the circle formed by camp equipage. See CAMP, ENCAMPMENTS.
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Trench
(prop. , tealah, 1Ki 18:32; 1Ki 18:35; 1Ki 18:38, a channel, or conduit, as elsewhere), a kind of ditch cut into the earth for the purpose of receiving and draining the water from adjacent parts. Something of this kind was the trench cut by the prophet Elijah to contain the water which he ordered to be poured on his sacrifice (1Ki 18:32), and which, when filled to the brim. with water, was entirely exhausted, evaporated, by the fire of the Lord which consumed the sacrifice. SEE ELIJAH.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Trench (2)
(, cheyl, 2Sa 20:15, a wall, rampart, or bulwark, as elsewhere rendered; , magal, 1Sa 26:5; 1Sa 26:7; or , magaldh, 17:20, a wagon-rut, hence a defense formed by the vehicles of an army; , Luk 19:43, a mound [Lat. vallum] for blockading a besieged city, formed of the earth thrown out of a moat and stuck with sharp sticks or palisades) is also a military term, and denotes one description of the approaches to a fortified town. They were anciently used to surround a town, to enclose the besieged, and to secure the besiegers against attacks from them. Trenches could not be cut in a rock; and it is probable that, when our Lord says of Jerusalem (Luk 19:43), Thy enemies shall cast a trench about thee, meaning, they shall raise a wall of enclosure, he foretold what the Jews would barely credit from the nature of the case; perhaps what they considered as impossible: yet the providence of God has so ordered it that we have evidence to this fact in Josephus, who says that Titus exhorting his soldiers, they surrounded Jerusalem with a wall in the space of three days, although the general opinion had pronounced it impossible. This circumvolution prevented any escape from the city, and deterred from all attempts at relief by succors going into it. SEE SIEGE.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Trench
trench, trensh. See SIEGE, (5), (8).
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Trench
primarily “a pointed stake,” hence, “a palisade or rampart,” is rendered “trench” in Luk 19:43, AV (RV, “bank,” marg., “palisade”). In A.D. 70, Titus, the Roman general, surrounded Jerusalem with a palisaded mound (Tyndale, l.c., renders it “mound”). The Jews in one of their sorties destroyed this charax, after which Titus surrounded the city with a wall of masonry.