2 Chronicles 32:3
he took counsel with his captains and his heroes, to stop the waters of the fountains, which were outside the city,—and they helped him.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
2And, when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come,—and that, his face, was—to war, against Jerusalem,
Cross References
2 Kings 20:20Now, the rest of the story of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool and an aqueduct, and brought water into the city, are, they, not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
2 Chronicles 32:30And, the same Hezekiah, stopped up the upper spring of the waters of Gihon, and brought them straight down the west side of the city of David,—and Hezekiah prospered in all his work.
Proverbs 20:18Plans—by counsel, shalt thou establish, and, with concerted measures, make thou war.
Isaiah 22:8Then removed he the veil of Judah,—Yea thou didst peer on that day, into the armoury of the forest-house;
Romans 11:34For who hath come to know the mind of the Lord? Or who hath become his counselor?
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 →