2 Chronicles 32:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

So many people gathered together and stopped all the fountains and the brook that ran through the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come and find much water?

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Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    A large number of people gathered together, and they stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the land, saying, "Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?"

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    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?

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    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?

  • 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?

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    and there gathered together a greate people, and couered all ye welles and water brokes in the myddes of the londe, and sayde: Lest the kynges of Assur fynde moch water wha they come.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    So many of the people assembled themselues, and stopt all the fountaines, and the riuer that ranne through the middes of the countrey, saying, Why should the Kings of Asshur come, and finde much water?

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    For there gathered many of the people together, and stopt all the welles, and the broke that ran through the middes of the land, saying: Why shall the kinges of the Assyrians come and finde much water?

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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?

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

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

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    and much people are gathered, and they stop all the fountains and the brook that is rushing into the midst of the land, saying, `Why do the kings of Asshur come, and have found much water?'

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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?

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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?

  • 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?

  • World English Bible (2000)

    So many people gathered together, and they stopped all the springs, and the brook that flowed through the midst of the land, saying, "Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?"

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    A large number of people gathered together and stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the district. They reasoned,“Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?”

Referenced Verses

  • 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 says, Are not my princes altogether kings?
  • 1 Kgs 3:9 : 9 Therefore give your servant an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil: for who is able to judge this your great people?
  • 1 Kgs 3:16-17 : 16 Then two women, who were harlots, came to the king and stood before him. 17 And one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I gave birth to a child with her in the house.
  • 1 Kgs 19:21 : 21 And he returned from him, and took a yoke of oxen and slaughtered them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he arose and went after Elijah and ministered to him.
  • 2 Kgs 18:9 : 9 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 and besieged it.
  • 2 Kgs 18:13 : 13 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.
  • 2 Kgs 19:17 : 17 Truly, 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 they took away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.
  • 2 Chr 32:1 : 1 After these events and their establishment, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and entered into Judah, and camped against the fortified cities, thinking to conquer them for himself.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Chr 32:2-3
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    2And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come and intended to fight against Jerusalem,

    3He consulted with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains outside the city, and they helped him.

  • 2 Chr 32:30
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    30This 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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    6Because this people refuses the waters of Shiloah that flow softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;

    7Now therefore, behold, the Lord brings 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:

  • Isa 22:9
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    9You have also seen the breaches of the city of David, that they are many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

  • 2 Chr 32:5-6
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    73%

    5He also strengthened himself, and rebuilt all the wall that was broken, and raised it to the towers, and built another wall outside, and repaired Millo in the city of David, and made weapons and shields in abundance.

    6And he appointed captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the open space at the city gate, and spoke encouragingly to them, saying,

  • Isa 37:25
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    25I have dug, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet I have dried up all the rivers of besieged places.

  • 2 Kgs 18:17
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    17The king of Assyria sent Tartan, Rabsaris, and Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah with a great army against Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem, and when they had gone up, they stood by the aqueduct of the upper pool, which is on the highway to the fuller's field.

  • Isa 36:2
    72%

    2And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the aqueduct of the upper pool on the road to the Fuller's Field.

  • 2 Kgs 19:24
    71%

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

  • Isa 36:16
    70%

    16Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria: Make peace with me by a present, and come out to me, and every one of you eat from his own vine and his own fig tree and drink the waters of his own cistern,

  • 2 Kgs 20:20
    70%

    20And 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 Kgs 18:31
    70%

    31Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria: Make peace with me and come out to me, and every one of you will eat from his own vine and his own fig tree, and drink from the water of his own cistern,

  • 2 Chr 32:10-11
    2 verses
    70%

    10Thus says Sennacherib king of Assyria, On what do you trust, that you remain under siege in Jerusalem?

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

  • Jer 2:13
    70%

    13For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and carved themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water.

  • Prov 5:16
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    16Let your fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of water in the streets.

  • 2 Kgs 3:25
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    25And they destroyed the cities, and in every good piece of land each man threw a stone and filled it, and they stopped all the springs of water and cut down all the good trees. Only in Kir Haraseth did they leave its stones intact; however, the slingers surrounded it and attacked it.

  • 2 Chr 32:18
    69%

    18Then they cried out with a loud voice in the language of Judah to the people of Jerusalem on the wall, to frighten them and to trouble them, that they might capture the city.

  • Gen 26:15
    69%

    15For all the wells which his father's servants had dug 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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    7But it happened, when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the walls of Jerusalem were repaired, and the breaches began to be stopped, they were very angry,

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

  • Isa 48:21
    69%

    21And they did not thirst when he led them through the deserts; he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them; he split the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

  • Jer 14:3
    69%

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

  • 2 Kgs 19:32
    68%

    32Therefore thus says 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 siege mound against it.

  • Jer 51:32
    68%

    32And that the passages are blocked, the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are terrified.

  • Ps 73:10
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    10Therefore his people return here, and waters of a full cup are drained by them.

  • Josh 3:16
    68%

    16That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up in a 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 crossed over opposite Jericho.

  • Ps 78:16
    68%

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

  • 2 Kgs 3:19
    68%

    19And you shall attack every fortified city and every choice city, and shall cut down every good tree, and stop up all the springs of water, and ruin every good piece of land with stones."

  • Ps 114:8
    68%

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

  • 1 Kgs 18:35
    68%

    35And the water ran around the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.

  • Ezek 31:4
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    4The waters made it great, the deep set it up on high with its rivers running around its plants, and sent out its little rivers to all the trees of the field.

  • Isa 37:33
    68%

    33Therefore thus says 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 build a siege ramp against it.

  • Nah 3:14
    67%

    14Draw water for the siege, fortify your strongholds: go into clay and tread the mortar, make strong the brick kiln.

  • Isa 15:7
    67%

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

  • Jer 2:18
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    18And now what do you have to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what do you have to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?

  • Isa 22:11
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    11You also made a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool; but you have not looked to its maker, neither had respect to him who fashioned it long ago.

  • Ps 107:33
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    33He turns rivers into a wilderness, and the water springs into dry ground;

  • Exod 7:24
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    24And all the Egyptians dug around the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.

  • 2 Kgs 3:16
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    16And he said, "Thus says the LORD: 'Make this valley full of ditches.'

  • Gen 26:32
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    32And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, We have found water.

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    14After this, he built a wall outside the city of David on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, reaching the entrance of the Fish Gate, and encircled Ophel, raising it to a great height, and put commanders of war in all the fortified cities of Judah.

  • 1 Sam 29:1
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    1Now the Philistines gathered all their armies at Aphek, and the Israelites camped by a fountain in Jezreel.

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

  • Nah 2:6
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    6The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.

  • Isa 19:5
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    5The waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.

  • Gen 8:2
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    2The fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were also stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.