A great many people were gathered, and they stopped all the springs and (A)the brook that flowed through the land, saying, “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find much water?” He set to work resolutely and built up (B)all the wall that was broken down and raised towers upon it,[a] and outside it he built another wall, and he strengthened the (C)Millo in the city of David. He also made weapons and shields in abundance. And he set combat commanders over the people and gathered them together to him in the square at the gate of the city and spoke (D)encouragingly to them, saying,

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 32:5 Vulgate; Hebrew and raised upon the towers

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