2 Chronicles 32:4

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּקָּבְצ֣וּ עַם־רָ֔ב וַֽיִּסְתְּמוּ֙ אֶת־כָּל־הַמַּעְיָנ֔וֹת וְאֶת־הַנַּ֛חַל הַשּׁוֹטֵ֥ף בְּתוֹךְ־הָאָ֖רֶץ לֵאמֹ֑ר לָ֤מָּה יָב֙וֹאוּ֙ מַלְכֵ֣י אַשּׁ֔וּר וּמָצְא֖וּ מַ֥יִם רַבִּֽים

Transliteration

wa-yiqqāḇṣû ʿam-rāḇ wa-yistəmû ʾet-all-the-maʿyānôṯ and-ʾet-the-naḥal the-šôṭēp̄ in-midst-of-the-ʾāreṣ lēmōr lāmmāh yāḇôʾû malḵê ʾaššûr û-māṣəʾû mayim rabbîm

Grammar Details

*wa-yiqqāḇṣû*: waw consecutive + niphal imperfect, 3rd plural - and they gathered themselves
*ʿam*: masculine singular noun - people
*rāḇ*: adjective, masculine singular - many/great/numerous
*wa-yistəmû*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect, 3rd plural - and they stopped up/blocked
*ʾet*: direct object marker
*maʿyānôṯ*: feminine plural noun - springs
*naḥal*: masculine singular noun - stream/brook/wadi
*šôṭēp̄*: qal participle, masculine singular - flowing/overflowing
*ʾāreṣ*: feminine singular noun - land/earth/ground
*lēmōr*: qal infinitive construct - saying
*lāmmāh*: interrogative + preposition - why
*yāḇôʾû*: qal imperfect, 3rd plural - they will come
*malḵê*: masculine plural construct - kings of
*ʾaššûr*: proper noun - Assyria
*û-māṣəʾû*: conjunction + qal perfect, 3rd plural - and find
*mayim*: masculine plural noun - water
*rabbîm*: adjective, masculine plural - many/great/abundant

Word Meanings

*ʿam-rāḇ*: many people/great multitude
*naḥal*: stream/brook/wadi/valley
*šôṭēp̄*: flowing/overflowing/flooding

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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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