2 Chronicles 32:4

And there were gathered together much people, so they stopped all the fountains, and the torrent that flowed through the midst of the land, saying,—Wherefore should the kings of Assyria come, and find many waters?

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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 captains and his heroes, to stop the waters of the fountains, which were outside the city,—and they helped him.

5And he took courage, and built all the wall that was broken down and carried up thereon towers, and, on the outside, another wall, and strengthened Millo, the city of David,-and made weapons in abundance, and bucklers,

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Cross References

1 Kings 3:16Then, came there in two unchaste women, unto the king,—and stood before him.

2 Kings 18:9And it came to pass, in the fourth year of King Hezekiah—the same, was the seventh year of Hosea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and laid siege against it;

2 Kings 19:17Of a truth, O Yahweh,—the kings of Assyria have devoted to destruction the nations and their lands;

2 Chronicles 30:14Then rose they up, and removed the altars, which were in Jerusalem,-and, all the censers, removed they, and cast them into the Kidron ravine.

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.

Isaiah 22:9And the breaches in the city of David, ye beheld for they were many,—So 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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