2 Chronicles 32:4

WEB

⁴Then 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?”

KJV

⁴So 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?

BSB

⁴Many people assembled and stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the land. “Why should the kings ^[+] of Assyria come and find plenty of water?” they said.

FBV

⁴They directed a large group of workers to block all the springs as well as the stream flowing nearby. “Why should the kings of Assyria come here and find plenty of water?” they asked.

Extra References

2 Chronicles 32:30

³⁰This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper spring of the waters of Gihon, and brought them straight down on the west side of David’s city. Hezekiah prospered in all his works.

2 Chronicles 30:14

¹⁴They arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and they took away all the altars for incense and threw them into the brook Kidron.

2 Kings 19:17

¹⁷Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,

1 Kings 3:16-17

¹⁶Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him. ¹⁷The one woman said, “Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her in the house.

Isaiah 10:8

⁸For he says, “Aren’t all of my princes kings?

2 Kings 18:13

¹³Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.

1 Kings 19:21

²¹He returned from following him, and took the yoke of oxen, killed them, and boiled their meat with the oxen’s equipment, and gave to the people; and they ate. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and served him.

2 Kings 18:9

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 Chronicles 32:1

¹After these things and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, entered into Judah, encamped against the fortified cities, and intended to win them for himself.

2 Kings 20:20

²⁰Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made the pool, and the conduit, and brought water into the city, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?