Isaiah 22:9

American Standard Version (1901)

And ye saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool;

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  • 2 Kgs 20:20 : 20 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made the pool, and the conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
  • 2 Chr 32:1-6 : 1 After these things, and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fortified cities, and thought to win them for himself. 2 And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem, 3 he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which were without the city; and they helped him. 4 So there was gathered much people together, and they stopped all the fountains, and the brook that flowed through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water? 5 And he took courage, and built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised [it] up to the towers, and the other wall without, and strengthened Millo [in] the city of David, and made weapons and shields in abundance. 6 And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the broad place at the gate of the city, and spake comfortably to them, saying,
  • 2 Chr 32:30 : 30 This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper spring of the waters of Gihon, and brought them straight down on the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
  • Neh 3:16 : 16 After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of half the district of Beth-zur, unto the place over against the sepulchres of David, and unto the pool that was made, and unto the house of the mighty men.

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  • Isa 22:10-11
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    83%

    10and ye numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and ye brake down the houses to fortify the wall;

    11ye made also a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But ye looked not unto him that had done this, neither had ye respect unto him that purposed it long ago.

  • Isa 22:8
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    8And he took away the covering of Judah; and thou didst look in that day to the armor in the house of the forest.

  • 2 Chr 32:3-5
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    3he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which were without the city; and they helped him.

    4So there was gathered much people together, and they stopped all the fountains, and the brook that flowed through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?

    5And he took courage, and built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised [it] up to the towers, and the other wall without, and strengthened Millo [in] the city of David, and made weapons and shields in abundance.

  • Neh 3:15-16
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    71%

    15And the fountain gate repaired Shallun the son of Col-hozeh, the ruler of the district of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the bolts thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king's garden, even unto the stairs that go down from the city of David.

    16After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of half the district of Beth-zur, unto the place over against the sepulchres of David, and unto the pool that was made, and unto the house of the mighty men.

  • Neh 2:13-15
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    70%

    13And I went out by night by the valley gate, even toward the jackal's well, and to the dung gate, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.

    14Then I went on to the fountain gate and to the king's pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.

    15Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.

  • Neh 12:37
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    37And by the fountain gate, and straight before them, they went up by the stairs of the city of David, at the ascent of the wall, above the house of David, even unto the water gate eastward.

  • 2 Chr 33:14
    69%

    14Now after this he built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate; and he compassed Ophel about [with it], and raised it up to a very great height: and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.

  • 2 Kgs 20:20
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    20Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made the pool, and the conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

  • Ezek 26:12
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    12And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise; and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses; and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the waters.

  • Isa 37:25
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    25I have digged and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.

  • Isa 25:12
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    12And the high fortress of thy walls hath he brought down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.

  • Jer 2:13
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    13For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

  • Ezek 47:1
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    1And he brought me back unto the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward; (for the forefront of the house was toward the east;) and the waters came down from under, from the right side of the house, on the south of the altar.

  • Neh 2:17
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    17Then said I unto them, Ye see the evil case that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.

  • 2 Kgs 22:5
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    5and let them deliver it into the hand of the workmen that have the oversight of the house of Jehovah; and let them give it to the workmen that are in the house of Jehovah, to repair the breaches of the house,

  • 2 Kgs 18:17
    67%

    17And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rab-saris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army unto Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field.

  • Prov 5:15-16
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    67%

    15Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running waters out of thine own well.

    16Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, And streams of water in the streets?

  • 2 Kgs 19:24
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    24I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.

  • Ezek 13:12
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    12Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it?

  • Hag 2:16
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    16Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty [measures], there were but ten; when one came to the winevat to draw out fifty [vessels], there were but twenty.

  • Lam 2:8
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    8Jehovah hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He hath stretched out the line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying; And he hath made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish together.

  • Ps 89:40
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    40Thou hast broken down all his hedges; Thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin.

  • Zech 9:11
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    11As for thee also, because of the blood of thy covenant I have set free thy prisoners from the pit wherein is no water.

  • Ezek 13:5
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    5Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither built up the wall for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in the day of Jehovah.

  • Ezek 40:18
    67%

    18And the pavement was by the side of the gates, answerable unto the length of the gates, even the lower pavement.

  • Ezek 26:9
    67%

    9And he shall set his battering engines against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.

  • Isa 22:5
    67%

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  • 2 Chr 32:30
    67%

    30This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper spring of the waters of Gihon, and brought them straight down on the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.

  • 2 Sam 12:27
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    27And Joab sent messengers to David, and said, I have fought against Rabbah; yea, I have taken the city of waters.

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    1The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?

  • Eccl 9:14
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    14There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.

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    6The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.

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    14Draw thee water for the siege; strengthen thy fortresses; go into the clay, and tread the mortar; make strong the brickkiln.

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    15Thou didst cleave fountain and flood: Thou driedst up mighty rivers.

  • 2 Kgs 12:12
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    12and to the masons and the hewers of stone, and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the breaches of the house of Jehovah, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.

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    2And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.

  • Ps 80:12
    66%

    12Why hast thou broken down its walls, So that all they that pass by the way do pluck it?

  • 1 Chr 11:7
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    7And David dwelt in the stronghold; therefore they called it the city of David.

  • 2 Kgs 3:19
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    19And ye shall smite every fortified city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all fountains of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.