2 Chronicles 32:4

So 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?”

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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 consulted with his leaders and his powerful men to stop up the waters of the springs that were outside the city; they helped him do so.

5Hezekiah took courage and built up all the wall that was broken down. He built the towers higher, and also the other wall outside. He also strengthened the Millo in the city of David, and he made large amounts of weapons and shields. + 32:5 Instead of He built the towers higher , some ancient and modern versions have, he built towers on it , that is, on the wall.

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Cross References

1 Kings 3:16Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.

2 Kings 18:9In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it.

2 Kings 19:17Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands.

2 Chronicles 30:14They rose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense; they threw them into the brook Kidron.

2 Chronicles 32:30It 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.

Isaiah 22:9You saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many, 1 and you collected the water of the lower pool. 1

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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