2 Chronicles 32:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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?

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  • 2 Chr 32:30 : 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.
  • Isa 10:8 : 8 For he says, Are not all my captains kings?
  • 1 Kgs 3:9 : 9 Give your servant, then, a wise heart for judging your people, able to see what is good and what evil; for who is able to be the judge of this great people?
  • 1 Kgs 3:16-17 : 16 Then two loose women of the town came and took their places before the king; 17 And one of them said, O my lord, I and this woman are living in the same house; and I gave birth to a child by her side in the house.
  • 1 Kgs 19:21 : 21 And he went back, and took the oxen and put them to death, and cooking their flesh with the yokes of the oxen, he gave the people a feast. Then he got up and went after Elijah and became his servant.
  • 2 Kgs 18:9 : 9 Now in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea, son of Elah, king of Israel, Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, came up against Samaria, shutting it in with his armies.
  • 2 Kgs 18:13 : 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 19:17 : 17 Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have made waste the nations and their lands,
  • 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 30:14 : 14 And they got to work and took away all the altars in Jerusalem, and they put all the vessels for burning perfumes into the stream Kidron.
  • 2 Chr 32:1 : 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.

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  • 2 Chr 32:2-3
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    2 And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come for the purpose of fighting against Jerusalem,

    3 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.

  • 2 Chr 32:30
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    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.

  • 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:

  • 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.

  • 2 Chr 32:5-6
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    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,

  • 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 18:17
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    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.

  • Isa 36:2
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    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 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 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;

  • 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?

  • 2 Kgs 18:31
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    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 32:10-11
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    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?

  • Jer 2:13
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    13 For my people have done two evils; they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water.

  • Prov 5:16
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    16 Let not your springs be flowing in the streets, or your streams of water in the open places.

  • 2 Kgs 3:25
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    25 Pulling down the towns, covering every good field with stones, stopping up all the water-springs, and cutting down all the good trees; they went on driving Moab before them till only in Kir-hareseth were there any Moabites; and the fighting-men went round the town raining stones on it.

  • 2 Chr 32:18
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    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;

  • Gen 26:15
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    15 Now all the water-holes, which his father's servants had made in the days of Abraham, had been stopped up with earth by the Philistines.

  • Neh 4:7-8
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    7 But when it came to the ears of Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabians and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites, that the building of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and the broken places were being made good, they were full of wrath;

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

  • Isa 48:21
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    21 They had no need of water when he was guiding them through the waste lands: he made water come out of the rock for them: the rock was parted and the waters came flowing out.

  • Jer 14:3
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    3 Their great men have sent their servants for water: they come to the holes and there is no water to be seen; they come back with nothing in their vessels; they are overcome with shame and fear, covering their heads.

  • 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;

  • Jer 51:32
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    32 And the ways across the river have been taken, and the water-holes ... burned with fire, and the men of war are in the grip of fear.

  • Ps 73:10
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    10 For this reason they are full of bread; and water is ever flowing for them.

  • Josh 3:16
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    16 Then the waters flowing down from higher up were stopped and came together in a mass a long way back at Adam, a town near Zarethan; and the waters flowing down to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were cut off: and the people went across opposite Jericho.

  • Ps 78:16
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    16 He made streams come out of the rock; and waters came flowing down like rivers.

  • 2 Kgs 3:19
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    19 And you are to put every walled town to destruction, cutting down every good tree, and stopping up every water-spring, and making all the good land rough with stones.

  • Ps 114:8
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    8 Who made the rock into a water-spring, and the hard stone into a fountain.

  • 1 Kgs 18:35
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    35 And the water went all round the altar, till the drain was full.

  • Ezek 31:4
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    4 It got strength from the waters and the deep made it tall: its streams went round about its planted land and it sent out its waterways to all the trees of the field.

  • 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.

  • Nah 3:14
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    14 Get water for the time when you are shut in, make strong your towns: go into the potter's earth, stamping it down with your feet, make strong the brickworks.

  • Isa 15:7
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    7 For this cause they will take away their wealth, and the stores they have got together, over the stream of the water-plants.

  • Jer 2:18
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    18 And now, what have you to do on the way to Egypt, to get your drink from the waters of the Nile? or what have you to do on the way to Assyria, to get your drink from the waters of the River?

  • Isa 22:11
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    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.

  • Ps 107:33
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    33 He makes rivers into waste places, and springs of water into a dry land;

  • Exod 7:24
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    24 And all the Egyptians made holes round about the Nile to get drinking-water, for they were not able to make use of the Nile water.

  • 2 Kgs 3:16
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    16 And he said, The Lord says, I will make this valley full of water-holes.

  • Gen 26:32
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    32 And that day Isaac's servants came to him and gave him word of the water-hole which they had made, and said to him, We have come to water.

  • 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.

  • 1 Sam 29:1
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    1 Now the Philistines got all their army together at Aphek: and the Israelites put their forces in position by the fountain in Jezreel.

  • Gen 26:19
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    19 Now Isaac's servants made holes in the valley, and came to a spring of flowing water.

  • Nah 2:6
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    6 He takes the record of his great men: they go falling on their way; they go quickly to the wall, the cover is made ready.

  • Isa 19:5
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    5 And the waters of the sea will be cut off, and the river will become dry and waste:

  • Gen 8:2
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    2 And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were shut, and the rain from heaven was stopped.