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2 Chronicles 32:5 KJV
2 Chronicles · chapter 32 · verse 5
Also 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.2 Chronicles 32:5 · King James Version
2 Chronicles 32:5 in context
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,
7Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him: for there be more with us than with him:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- strengthenedchâzaqto fasten uponH2388 →
- withoutchûwtsproperly, separate by awallH2351 →
- brokenpâratsto break outH6555 →
- towersmigdâla towerH4026 →
- Millomillôwʼa rampartH4407 →
- DavidDâvidDavid, the youngest son of JesseH1732 →
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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