2 Chronicles 32:3

World English Bible (2000)

he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the springs which were outside of the city; and they helped him.

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  • 2 Kgs 18:20 : 20 You say (but they are but vain words), 'There is counsel and strength for war.' Now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?
  • 2 Kgs 20:20 : 20 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made the pool, and the conduit, and brought water into the city, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
  • 2 Chr 30:2 : 2 For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the assembly in Jerusalem, to keep the Passover in the second month.
  • Prov 15:22 : 22 Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counselors they are established.
  • Prov 20:18 : 18 Plans are established by advice; by wise guidance you wage war!
  • Prov 24:6 : 6 for by wise guidance you wage your war; and victory is in many advisors.
  • Isa 22:8-9 : 8 He took away the covering of Judah; and you looked in that day to the armor in the house of the forest. 9 You saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool. 10 You numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall. 11 You also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you didn't look to him who had done this, neither did you have respect for him who purposed it long ago.
  • Isa 40:13 : 13 Who has directed the Spirit of Yahweh, or has taught him as his counselor?
  • Rom 11:34 : 34 "For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?"

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  • 2 Chr 32:4-11
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    4So 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?"

    5He took courage, and built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised [it] up to the towers, and the other wall outside, and strengthened Millo [in] the city of David, and made weapons and shields in abundance.

    6He set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the broad place at the gate of the city, and spoke comfortably to them, saying,

    7"Be strong and courageous, don't be afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude who is with him; for there is a greater with us than with him.

    8With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is Yahweh our God to help us, and to fight our battles." The people rested themselves on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

    9After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Jerusalem, (now he was before Lachish, and all his power with him), to Hezekiah king of Judah, and to all Judah who were at Jerusalem, saying,

    10Thus says Sennacherib king of Assyria, "In whom do you trust, that you remain under siege in Jerusalem?

    11Doesn't Hezekiah persuade you, to give you over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, 'Yahweh our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?'

  • 2 Chr 32:29-31
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    29Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance; for God had given him very much substance.

    30This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper spring of the waters of Gihon, and brought them straight down on the west side of the city of David. Hezekiah prospered in all his works.

    31However in [the business of] the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.

  • 2 Chr 32:1-2
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    1After these things, and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fortified cities, and thought to win them for himself.

    2When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem,

  • 2 Chr 32:22
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    22Thus Yahweh saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all [others], and guided them on every side.

  • 2 Kgs 18:16-18
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    16At that time did Hezekiah cut off [the gold from] the doors of the temple of Yahweh, and [from] the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.

    17The king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem. 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.

    18When they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.

  • Isa 36:1-2
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    1Now it happened in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all of the fortified cities of Judah, and captured them.

    2The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to king Hezekiah with a large army. He stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool in the fuller's field highway.

  • 2 Kgs 20:20
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    20Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made the pool, and the conduit, and brought water into the city, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

  • Isa 36:16
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    16Don't listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria, 'Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and each of you eat from his vine, and each one from his fig tree, and each one of you drink the waters of his own cistern;

  • Isa 37:25
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    25I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt."

  • 2 Kgs 18:30-31
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    30Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, "Yahweh will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."

    31Don't listen to Hezekiah.' For thus says the king of Assyria, 'Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and everyone of you eat of his vine, and everyone of his fig tree, and everyone drink the waters of his own cistern;

  • 2 Chr 32:16-18
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    16His servants spoke yet more against Yahweh God, and against his servant Hezekiah.

    17He also wrote letters insulting Yahweh, the God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, "As the gods of the nations of the lands, which have not delivered their people out of my hand, so shall the God of Hezekiah not deliver his people out of my hand."

    18They cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.

  • 2 Chr 32:20
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    20Hezekiah the king, and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and cried to heaven.

  • Isa 37:21
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    21Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Because you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria,

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

  • Isa 37:5
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    5So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

  • 2 Chr 31:8
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    8When Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed Yahweh, and his people Israel.

  • Isa 37:15
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    15Hezekiah prayed to Yahweh, saying,

  • 2 Chr 33:14
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    14Now after this he built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate; and he encircled Ophel [with it], and raised it up to a very great height: and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.

  • 2 Kgs 18:20
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    20You say (but they are but vain words), 'There is counsel and strength for war.' Now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?

  • Isa 8:6-7
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    6"Because this people have refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;

    7now therefore, behold, the Lord brings upon them the mighty flood waters of the River: the king of Assyria and all his glory. It will come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks.

  • 2 Chr 32:26-27
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    26Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of Yahweh didn't come on them in the days of Hezekiah.

    27Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honor: and he provided him treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all kinds of goodly vessels;

  • Isa 36:18
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    18Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, "Yahweh will deliver us." Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria?

  • Isa 36:13
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    13Then Rabshakeh stood, and called out with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said, "Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!

  • 2 Chr 32:13
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    13Don't you know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of the lands in any way able to deliver their land out of my hand?

  • Neh 4:8
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    8and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.

  • Isa 36:5
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    5I say that your counsel and strength for the war are only vain words. Now in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?

  • 2 Kgs 18:13
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    13Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.

  • 2 Kgs 19:24
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    24I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.'

  • Isa 37:33
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    33Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria, 'He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither will he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.

  • 2 Kgs 19:32
    67%

    32"Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria, 'He shall not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither shall he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.

  • Isa 37:9
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    9He heard news concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, "He has come out to fight against you." When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,