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2 Chronicles 32:4

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So, many people gathered together and they stopped all the springs and the brook that flowed through the middle of the land, saying, “Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find abundant water?”

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2 Chronicles 32:4 in other translations

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

2 Chronicles 32:4 · American Standard Version

2 Chronicles 32:4 in context

  1. 2When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come, and that he was planning to fight against Jerusalem,
  2. 3he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the springs which were outside of the city, and they helped him.
  3. 4So, many people gathered together and they stopped all the springs and the brook that flowed through the middle of the land, saying, “Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find abundant water?”
  4. 5He took courage, built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised it up to the towers, with the other wall outside, and strengthened Millo in David’s city, and made weapons and shields in abundance.
  5. 6He set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the wide place at the gate of the city, and spoke encouragingly to them, saying,