2 Chronicles 32:4

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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?”

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  • 2 Chr 32:30 : 30 Hezekiah dammed up the source of the waters of the Upper Gihon and directed them down to the west side of the City of David. Hezekiah succeeded in all that he did.
  • Isa 10:8 : 8 Indeed, he says:“Are not my officials all kings?
  • 1 Kgs 3:9 : 9 So give your servant a discerning mind so he can make judicial decisions for your people and distinguish right from wrong. Otherwise no one is able to make judicial decisions for this great nation of yours.”
  • 1 Kgs 3:16-17 : 16 Solomon Demonstrates His Wisdom Then two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him. 17 One of the women said,“My master, this woman and I live in the same house. I had a baby while she was with me in the house.
  • 1 Kgs 19:21 : 21 Elisha went back and took his pair of oxen and slaughtered them. He cooked the meat over a fire that he made by burning the harness and yoke. He gave the people meat and they ate. Then he got up and followed Elijah and became his assistant.
  • 2 Kgs 18:9 : 9 In the fourth year of King Hezekiah’s reign(it was the seventh year of the reign of Israel’s King Hoshea, son of Elah), King Shalmaneser of Assyria marched up against Samaria and besieged it.
  • 2 Kgs 18:13 : 13 Sennacherib Invades Judah In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah’s reign, King Sennacherib of Assyria marched up against all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.
  • 2 Kgs 19:17 : 17 It is true, LORD, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands.
  • 2 Kgs 20:20 : 20 The rest of the events of Hezekiah’s reign and all his accomplishments, including how he built a pool and conduit to bring water into the city, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah.
  • 2 Chr 30:14 : 14 They removed the altars in Jerusalem; they also removed all the incense altars and threw them into the Kidron Valley.
  • 2 Chr 32:1 : 1 Sennacherib Invades Judah After these faithful deeds were accomplished, King Sennacherib of Assyria invaded Judah. He besieged the fortified cities, intending to seize them.

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  • 2 Chr 32:2-3
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    2When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had invaded and intended to attack Jerusalem,

    3he consulted with his advisers and military officers about stopping up the springs outside the city, and they supported him.

  • 2 Chr 32:30
    76%

    30Hezekiah dammed up the source of the waters of the Upper Gihon and directed them down to the west side of the City of David. Hezekiah succeeded in all that he did.

  • Isa 8:6-7
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    6“These people have rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and melt in fear over Rezin and the son of Remaliah.

    7So look, the Lord is bringing up against them the turbulent and mighty waters of the Euphrates River– the king of Assyria and all his majestic power. It will reach flood stage and overflow its banks.

  • Isa 22:9
    74%

    9You saw the many breaks in the walls of the City of David; you stored up water in the lower pool.

  • 2 Chr 32:5-6
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    5Hezekiah energetically rebuilt every broken wall. He erected towers and an outer wall, and fortified the terrace of the City of David. He made many weapons and shields.

    6He appointed military officers over the army and assembled them in the square at the city gate. He encouraged them, saying,

  • Isa 37:25
    73%

    25I dug wells and drank water. With the soles of my feet I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.’

  • 2 Kgs 18:17
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    17The king of Assyria sent his commanding general, the chief eunuch, and the chief adviser from Lachish to King Hezekiah in Jerusalem, along with a large army. They went up and arrived at Jerusalem. They went and stood at the conduit of the upper pool which is located on the road to the field where they wash and dry cloth.

  • Isa 36:2
    72%

    2The king of Assyria sent his chief adviser from Lachish to King Hezekiah in Jerusalem, along with a large army. The chief adviser stood at the conduit of the upper pool which is located on the road to the field where they wash and dry cloth.

  • 2 Kgs 19:24
    71%

    24I dug wells and drank water in foreign lands. With the soles of my feet I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.’

  • Isa 36:16
    70%

    16Don’t listen to Hezekiah!’ For this is what the king of Assyria says,‘Send me a token of your submission and surrender to me. Then each of you may eat from his own vine and fig tree and drink water from his own cistern,

  • 2 Kgs 20:20
    70%

    20The rest of the events of Hezekiah’s reign and all his accomplishments, including how he built a pool and conduit to bring water into the city, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah.

  • 2 Kgs 18:31
    70%

    31Don’t listen to Hezekiah!’ For this is what the king of Assyria says,‘Send me a token of your submission and surrender to me. Then each of you may eat from his own vine and fig tree and drink water from his own cistern,

  • 2 Chr 32:10-11
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    70%

    10“This is what King Sennacherib of Assyria says:‘Why are you so confident that you remain in Jerusalem while it is under siege?

    11Hezekiah says,“The LORD our God will rescue us from the power of the king of Assyria.” But he is misleading you and you will die of hunger and thirst!

  • Jer 2:13
    70%

    13“Do so because my people have committed a double wrong: they have rejected me, the fountain of life-giving water, and they have dug cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns which cannot even hold water.”

  • Prov 5:16
    70%

    16Should your springs be dispersed outside, your streams of water in the wide plazas?

  • 2 Kgs 3:25
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    25They tore down the cities and each man threw a stone into every cultivated field until they were covered. They stopped up every spring and chopped down every productive tree. Only Kir Hareseth was left intact, but the slingers surrounded it and attacked it.

  • 2 Chr 32:18
    69%

    18They called out loudly in the Judahite dialect to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, trying to scare and terrify them so they could seize the city.

  • Gen 26:15
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    15So the Philistines took dirt and filled up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug back in the days of his father Abraham.

  • Neh 4:7-8
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    7(4:1) When Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the people of Ashdod heard that the restoration of the walls of Jerusalem had moved ahead and that the breaches had begun to be closed, they were very angry.

    8All of them conspired together to move with armed forces against Jerusalem and to create a disturbance in it.

  • Isa 48:21
    69%

    21They do not thirst as he leads them through dry regions; he makes water flow out of a rock for them; he splits open a rock and water flows out.’

  • Jer 14:3
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    3The leading men of the cities send their servants for water. They go to the cisterns, but they do not find any water there. They return with their containers empty. Disappointed and dismayed, they bury their faces in their hands.

  • 2 Kgs 19:32
    68%

    32So this is what the LORD has said about the king of Assyria:“He will not enter this city, nor will he shoot an arrow here. He will not attack it with his shield-carrying warriors, nor will he build siege works against it.

  • Jer 51:32
    68%

    32They will report that the fords have been captured, the reed marshes have been burned, the soldiers are terrified.

  • Ps 73:10
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    10Therefore they have more than enough food to eat, and even suck up the water of the sea.

  • Josh 3:16
    68%

    16the water coming downstream toward them stopped flowing. It piled up far upstream at Adam(the city near Zarethan); there was no water at all flowing to the sea of the rift valley(the Salt Sea). The people crossed the river opposite Jericho.

  • Ps 78:16
    68%

    16He caused streams to flow from the rock, and made the water flow like rivers.

  • 2 Kgs 3:19
    68%

    19You will defeat every fortified city and every important city. You must chop down every productive tree, stop up all the springs, and cover all the cultivated land with stones.”

  • Ps 114:8
    68%

    8who turned a rock into a pool of water, a hard rock into springs of water!

  • 1 Kgs 18:35
    68%

    35The water flowed down all sides of the altar and filled the trench.

  • Ezek 31:4
    68%

    4The water made it grow; underground springs made it grow tall. Rivers flowed all around the place it was planted, while smaller channels watered all the trees of the field.

  • Isa 37:33
    68%

    33So this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria:‘He will not enter this city, nor will he shoot an arrow here. He will not attack it with his shielded warriors, nor will he build siege works against it.

  • Nah 3:14
    67%

    14Draw yourselves water for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Trample the mud and tread the clay! Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls!

  • Isa 15:7
    67%

    7For this reason what they have made and stored up, they carry over the Stream of the Poplars.

  • Jer 2:18
    67%

    18What good will it do you then to go down to Egypt to seek help from the Egyptians? What good will it do you to go over to Assyria to seek help from the Assyrians?

  • Isa 22:11
    67%

    11You made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool– but you did not trust in the one who made it; you did not depend on the one who formed it long ago!

  • Ps 107:33
    67%

    33He turned streams into a desert, springs of water into arid land,

  • Exod 7:24
    67%

    24All the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, because they could not drink the water of the Nile.

  • 2 Kgs 3:16
    67%

    16and he said,“This is what the LORD has said,‘Make many cisterns in this valley,’

  • Gen 26:32
    67%

    32That day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug.“We’ve found water,” they reported.

  • 2 Chr 33:14
    67%

    14After this Manasseh built up the outer wall of the City of David on the west side of the Gihon in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate and all around the terrace; he made it much higher. He placed army officers in all the fortified cities in Judah.

  • 1 Sam 29:1
    67%

    1David Is Rejected by the Philistine Leaders The Philistines assembled all their troops at Aphek, while Israel camped at the spring that is in Jezreel.

  • Gen 26:19
    67%

    19When Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well with fresh flowing water there,

  • Nah 2:6
    67%

    6The sluice gates are opened; the royal palace is deluged and dissolves.

  • Isa 19:5
    67%

    5The water of the sea will be dried up, and the river will dry up and be empty.

  • Gen 8:2
    67%

    2The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky.