When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that his [a]purpose was to fight against Jerusalem,

Then he took counsel with his princes and his nobles, to stop the water of the fountains without the city: and they did help him.

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?

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 32:2 Hebrew, face.

When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come and that he intended to wage war against Jerusalem,(A) he consulted with his officials and military staff about blocking off the water from the springs outside the city, and they helped him. They gathered a large group of people who blocked all the springs(B) and the stream that flowed through the land. “Why should the kings[a] of Assyria come and find plenty of water?” they said.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 32:4 Hebrew; Septuagint and Syriac king