2 Chronicles 32:4

So there was gathered Am Rav together, who covered the springs, and the wadi that flowed through the midst of HaAretz, saying, Why should the melachim of Assyria come, and find mayim rabbim?

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?

In Context

3He took counsel with his sarim and his gibborim to cover over the waters of the springs + 32:3 Spring of Gihon which were outside the Ir; and they did support him.

5Also he strengthened himself, and repaired all the chomah that was broken down, and raised it on the migdalot, and another chomah outside of it, and repaired Millo + 32:5 terraces in Ir Dovid, and made weapons and shields in abundance.

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Cross References

1 Kings 3:16Then came there two nashim, that were zonot (harlots, prostitutes) unto HaMelech, and stood before him.

2 Kings 18:9And it came to pass in the fourth year of Melech Chizkiyah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea Ben Elah Melech Yisroel, that Shalmaneser Melech Ashur came up against Shomron, and besieged it.

2 Kings 19:17Truly, Hashem, the melachim of Ashur have laid waste the Goyim and their lands,

2 Chronicles 30:14And they arose and removed the mizbechot that were in Yerushalayim, and all the incense altars they took away, and threw them into the Wadi Kidron.

2 Chronicles 32:30This same Chizkiyahu (Yechizkiyahu) also covered over the upper source of the Gichon Spring and tunneled it straight down to the west side of Ir Dovid. Chizkiyahu (Yechizkiyahu) prospered in all his works.

Isaiah 22:9Ye have seen also the damage of Ir Dovid, that they are many; and ye gathered together the waters of the Lower Pool.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 32:2-9

Sennacherib's Invasion; Hezekiah's Patient Confidence. ( b. c. 713.) 1 After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself. 2 And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem, 3 He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which were without the city: and they did help him. 4 So there was… Read the whole commentary →

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