2 Chronicles 32:30

It was this same Hezekiah who also stopped up the upper spring of the waters of Gihon, and who brought them straight down on the west side of the city of David. Hezekiah succeeded in all his projects.

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This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.

In Context

29In addition, he provided himself with cities and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance, for God had given him very much wealth. + 32:29 Instead of cities , some modern versions have donkeys , and some other modern versions leave out the word entirely.

31However, in the matter of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to ask questions of those who knew, about the miraculous sign that had been done in the land, God left him to himself, in order to test him, and to know all that was in his heart.

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Cross References

1 Kings 1:33The king said to them, “Take with you the servants of your master, and have Solomon my son ride on my own mule and take him down to Gihon.

1 Kings 1:45Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king at Gihon, and have come up from there rejoicing, so that the city is in an uproar. This is the noise that you have heard.

2 Chronicles 26:5He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who taught him to honor God + 26:5 The Hebrew text can be read either, to honor God , or in the fear of God or in seeing God . Scholars are divided. . As long as he sought Yahweh, God made him prosper.

2 Chronicles 32:4So many people gathered together and stopped up all the springs and the stream that was flowing through the middle of the land. They said, “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find a lot of water?”

Psalms 1:1Blessed is the man who does not walk in the advice of the wicked, 1 or stand in the pathway with sinners, 1 or sit in the assembly of mockers. 1

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 32:25-33

The Death of Hezekiah. ( b. c. 698.) 24 In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed unto the Lord : and he spake unto him, and he gave him a sign. 25 But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem. 26 Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the Lord came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.… Read the whole commentary →

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