2nd Kings 24: 10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. 11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it.
After Simpson arrived at his home there was a long standoff between himself and the cops, then, after he realized that he was boxed in, and there was no way of escape, he finally surrendered between 8:45 and 9:00 pm on June 17 1994 and he was taken into custody. Again, the Confederate General Robert E. Lee saw fit to surrender the Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865.
This then brought the civil war in Virginia to an end, because General Robert Lee and his men saw that they were outnumbered and cornered. Thus, according to the characteristics of history, in most cases, surrender comes after confrontation or to avoid a confrontation. Also, the Scriptural records detail examples of surrender, when on occasions nations surrendered to other nations, when there was no other viable way out.
In some instances, those vulnerable nations or cities were besieged, their food supply was cut off, and if there was absolutely no way out and they remained hedged in on all sides for a while, then they would surrender to the invaders, as is manifested in the following example.
2nd Kings 24:12 And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.
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