2 Chronicles 32:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He took up with his rulers and men of war the question of stopping up the water-springs outside the town; and they gave him their support.

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  • 2 Kgs 18:20 : 20 You say you have a design, and strength for war, but these are only words. Now to whom are you looking for support, that you have gone against my authority?
  • 2 Kgs 20:20 : 20 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his power, and how he made the pool and the stream, to take water into the town, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?
  • 2 Chr 30:2 : 2 For the king, after discussion with his chiefs and all the body of the people in Jerusalem, had made a decision to keep the Passover in the second month.
  • Prov 15:22 : 22 Where there are no wise suggestions, purposes come to nothing; but by a number of wise guides they are made certain.
  • Prov 20:18 : 18 Every purpose is put into effect by wise help: and by wise guiding make war.
  • Prov 24:6 : 6 For by wise guiding you will overcome in war: and in a number of wise guides there is salvation.
  • Isa 22:8-9 : 8 He took away the cover of Judah; and in that day you were looking with care at the store of arms in the house of the woods. 9 And you saw all the broken places in the wall of the town of David: and you got together the waters of the lower pool. 10 And you had the houses of Jerusalem numbered, pulling down the houses to make the wall stronger. 11 And you made a place between the two walls for storing the waters of the old pool: but you gave no thought to him who had done this, and were not looking to him by whom it had been purposed long before.
  • Isa 40:13 : 13 By whom has the spirit of the Lord been guided, or who has been his teacher?
  • Rom 11:34 : 34 Who has knowledge of the mind of the Lord? or who has taken part in his purposes?

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  • 2 Chr 32:4-11
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    4 So they got together a great number of people, and had all the water-springs and the stream flowing through the land stopped up, saying, Why let the kings of Assyria come and have much water?

    5 Then he took heart, building up the wall where it was broken down, and making its towers higher, and building another wall outside; and he made strong the Millo in the town of David, and got together a great store of all sorts of instruments of war.

    6 And he put war chiefs over the people, and sent for them all to come together to him in the wide place at the doorway into the town, and to give them heart he said to them,

    7 Be strong and take heart; have no fear, and do not be troubled on account of the king of Assyria and all the great army with him: for there is a greater with us.

    8 With him is an arm of flesh; but we have the Lord our God, helping us and fighting for us. And the people put their faith in what Hezekiah, king of Judah, said.

    9 After this, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, sent his servants to Jerusalem (at that time he was stationed with all his army in front of Lachish), to say to Hezekiah and all the men of Judah in Jerusalem,

    10 Sennacherib, king of Assyria, says, In what are you placing your hope, waiting here in the walled town of Jerusalem?

    11 Is it not Hezekiah who has got you to do it, causing your death from need of food and water, by saying, The Lord our God will give us salvation out of the hands of the king of Assyria?

  • 2 Chr 32:29-31
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    29 And he made towns for himself, and got together much property in flocks and herds: for God had given him great wealth.

    30 It was Hezekiah who had the higher spring of the water of Gihon stopped, and the water taken down on the west side of the town of David. In everything he undertook, Hezekiah did well.

    31 However, in the business of the representatives sent by the rulers of Babylon to get news of the wonder which had taken place in the land, God gave up guiding him, testing him to see what was in his heart.

  • 2 Chr 32:1-2
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    1 Now after these things and this true-hearted work, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came into Judah, and put his army in position before the walled towns of Judah, designing to make his way into them by force.

    2 And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come for the purpose of fighting against Jerusalem,

  • 2 Chr 32:22
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    22 So the Lord gave Hezekiah and the people of Jerusalem salvation from the power of Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, and from all others, giving them rest on every side.

  • 2 Kgs 18:16-18
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    16 And at that time Hezekiah had the gold from the doors of the Lord's house, and from the door-pillars plated by him, cut off and gave it to the king of Assyria.

    17 Then the king of Assyria sent the Tartan and the Rab-saris and the Rab-shakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem, to King Hezekiah, with a strong force. And they went up and came to Jerusalem, and took up their position by the stream of the higher pool, by the highway of the washerman's field.

    18 And they sent for the king, and Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came out to them.

  • Isa 36:1-2
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    1 And it came about in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah that Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came up against all the walled towns of Judah and took them.

    2 And the king of Assyria sent the Rab-shakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah with a strong force, and he took up his position by the stream of the higher pool, by the highway of the washerman's

  • 2 Kgs 20:20
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    20 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his power, and how he made the pool and the stream, to take water into the town, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

  • Isa 36:16
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    16 Do not give ear to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says, Make peace with me, and come out to me; and everyone will be free to take the fruit of his vine and of his fig-tree, and the water of his spring;

  • Isa 37:25
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    25 I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.

  • 2 Kgs 18:30-31
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    30 And do not let Hezekiah make you put your faith in the Lord, saying, The Lord will certainly keep us safe, and this town will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.

    31 Do not give ear to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me; and everyone will be free to take the fruit of his vine and of his fig-tree, and the water of his spring;

  • 2 Chr 32:16-18
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    16 And his servants said even more against the Lord God and against his servant Hezekiah.

    17 And he sent letters, in addition, to put shame on the Lord, the God of Israel, and to say evil against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of other lands have not been able to keep their people safe from my hands, no more will the God of Hezekiah keep his people safe from my hands.

    18 These things they said, crying out with a loud voice in the Jews' language, to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, with the purpose of troubling them and putting fear into them, so that they might take the town;

  • 2 Chr 32:20
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    20 And Hezekiah the king, and Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, made prayer because of this, crying out to heaven.

  • Isa 37:21
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    21 Then Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sent to Hezekiah, saying, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, The prayer you have made to me against Sennacherib, king of Assyria, has come to my ears.

  • Isa 22:9
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    9 And you saw all the broken places in the wall of the town of David: and you got together the waters of the lower pool.

  • Isa 37:5
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    5 So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

  • 2 Chr 31:8
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    8 And when Hezekiah and the rulers came and saw all the store of goods, they gave praise to the Lord and to his people Israel.

  • Isa 37:15
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    15 And he made prayer to the Lord, saying,

  • 2 Chr 33:14
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    14 After this he made an outer wall for the town of David, on the west side of Gihon in the valley, as far as the way into the town by the fish doorway; and he put a very high wall round the Ophel; and he put captains of the army in all the walled towns of Judah.

  • 2 Kgs 18:20
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    20 You say you have a design, and strength for war, but these are only words. Now to whom are you looking for support, that you have gone against my authority?

  • Isa 8:6-7
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    6 Because this people will have nothing to do with the softly-flowing waters of Shiloah, and have fear of Rezin and Remaliah's son;

    7 For this cause the Lord is sending on them the waters of the River, deep and strong, even the king of Assyria and all his glory: and it will come up through all its streams, overflowing all its edges:

  • 2 Chr 32:26-27
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    26 But then, Hezekiah, in sorrow for what he had done, put away his pride; and he and all Jerusalem made themselves low, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come on them in Hezekiah's life-time.

    27 And Hezekiah had very great wealth and honour; and he made himself store-houses for his gold and silver and jewels and spices, and for body-covers and all sorts of beautiful vessels.

  • Isa 36:18
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    18 Give no attention to Hezekiah when he says to you, The Lord will keep us safe. Has any one of the gods of the nations kept his land from falling into the hands of the king of Assyria?

  • Isa 36:13
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    13 Then the Rab-shakeh got up and said with a loud voice in the Jews' language, Give ear to the words of the great king, the king of Assyria:

  • 2 Chr 32:13
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    13 Have you no knowledge of what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of every land? were the gods of the nations of those lands able to keep their land from falling into my hands?

  • Neh 4:8
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    8 And they made designs, all of them together, to come and make an attack on Jerusalem, causing trouble there.

  • Isa 36:5
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    5 You say you have a design and strength for war, but these are only words: now to whom are you looking for support, that you have gone against my authority?

  • 2 Kgs 18:13
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    13 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came up against all the walled towns of Judah and took them.

  • 2 Kgs 19:24
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    24 I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.

  • Isa 37:33
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    33 For this cause the Lord says about the king of Assyria, He will not come into this town, or send an arrow against it; he will not come before it with arms, or put up an earthwork against it.

  • 2 Kgs 19:32
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    32 For this cause the Lord says about the king of Assyria, He will not come into this town, or send an arrow against it; he will not come before it with arms, or put up an earthwork against it;

  • Isa 37:9
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    9 And when news came to him that Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, had made an attack on him, ... And he sent representatives to Hezekiah, king of Judah, saying,