So many of the people assembled themselves, and stopped all the fountains, and the river that ran through the midst of the country, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?

And [a]he took courage, and built all the broken wall, and made up the towers, and another wall without, and repaired [b]Millo in the [c]city of David, and made many [d]darts and shields.

And he set captains of war over the people, and assembled them to him in the broad place of the gate of the city, and [e]spake comfortably unto them, saying,

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 32:5 Hebrew, he was strengthened.
  2. 2 Chronicles 32:5 He made a double wall.
  3. 2 Chronicles 32:5 Read 2 Sam. 5:9.
  4. 2 Chronicles 32:5 Some read, swords or daggers.
  5. 2 Chronicles 32:6 Hebrew, he spake to their heart.

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