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2 Chronicles 32:4 KJV
2 Chronicles · chapter 32 · verse 4
So 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?2 Chronicles 32:4 · King James Version
2 Chronicles 32:4 in context
2And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem,
3He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which were without the city: and they did help him.
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?
5Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo in the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance.
6And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spake comfortably to them, saying,
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- fountainsmaʻyâna fountain , figuratively, a sourceH4599 →
- gatheredqâbatsto graspH6908 →
- stoppedçâthamto stop upH5640 →
- peopleʻama peopleH5971 →
- sayingʼâmarto sayH559 →
- brooknachala stream, especially a winter torrentH5158 →
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Here is, I. The formidable design of Sennacherib against Hezekiah's kingdom, and the vigorous attempt he made upon it. This Sennacherib was now, as Nebuchadnezzar was afterwards, the terror and scourge and great oppressor of that part of the world.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-8