2 Chronicles 32:4

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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?

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  • 2 Chr 32:30 : 30 This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
  • Isa 10:8 : 8 For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?
  • 1 Kgs 3:9 : 9 Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
  • 1 Kgs 3:16-17 : 16 Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him. 17 And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
  • 1 Kgs 19:21 : 21 And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him.
  • 2 Kgs 18:9 : 9 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
  • 2 Kgs 18:13 : 13 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.
  • 2 Kgs 19:17 : 17 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,
  • 2 Kgs 20:20 : 20 And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
  • 2 Chr 30:14 : 14 And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.
  • 2 Chr 32:1 : 1 After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself.

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  • 2 Chr 32:2-3
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    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 did help him.

  • 30 This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.

  • Isa 8:6-7
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    6 Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;

    7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:

  • 9 Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

  • 2 Chr 32:5-6
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    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.

    6 And 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,

  • 25 I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.

  • 17 And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against 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.

  • 2 And 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.

  • 24 I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.

  • 16 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;

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

  • 31 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern:

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    10 Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem?

    11 Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

  • 13 For 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.

  • 16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.

  • 25 And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kir-haraseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.

  • 18 Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.

  • 15 For all the wells which his father's servants had digd in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.

  • Neh 4:7-8
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    7 But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,

    8 And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.

  • 21 And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

  • 3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.

  • 32 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.

  • 32 And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.

  • 10 Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.

  • 16 That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.

  • 16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

  • 19 And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.

  • 8 Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.

  • 35 And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.

  • 4 The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field.

  • 33 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it.

  • 14 Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.

  • 7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.

  • 18 And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?

  • 11 Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.

  • 33 He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;

  • 24 And all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.

  • 16 And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full of ditches.

  • 32 And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digd, and said unto him, We have found water.

  • 14 Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.

  • 1 Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which is in Jezreel.

  • 19 And Isaac's servants digd in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.

  • 6 The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.

  • 5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.

  • 2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;