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2 Chronicles 32:3-5
New English Translation
2 Chronicles 32:3-5
New English Translation
3 he consulted with his advisers and military officers about stopping up the springs[a] outside the city, and they supported him. 4 A large number of people gathered together and stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the district.[b] They reasoned,[c] “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?” 5 Hezekiah[d] energetically rebuilt[e] every broken wall. He erected towers and an outer wall[f] and fortified the terrace of the City of David.[g] He made many weapons and shields.
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- 2 Chronicles 32:3 tn Heb “the waters of the springs.”
- 2 Chronicles 32:4 tn Heb “and they closed up all the springs and the stream that flows in the midst of the land.” Here אָרֶץ (ʾarets, “land”) does not refer to the entire land, but to a smaller region like a district.
- 2 Chronicles 32:4 tn Heb “land, saying.”
- 2 Chronicles 32:5 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Hezekiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
- 2 Chronicles 32:5 tn Heb “strengthened himself and built.”
- 2 Chronicles 32:5 tn Heb “and outside the wall another one.”
- 2 Chronicles 32:5 sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
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