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2 Chronicles 32:30

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

This same Hezekiah blocked the upper outlet of the water from the Gihon Spring  and channelled it smoothly downwards and westwards to the city of David.  Hezekiah succeeded in everything he did.

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The king said to them, ‘Take my servants  with you, have my son Solomon ride on my own mule,  and take him down to Gihon.


Many people gathered and stopped up all the springs  and the stream that flowed through the land;  they said, ‘Why should the kings of Assyria come and find abundant water? ’


The rest of the events of Hezekiah’s reign, along with all his might and how he made the pool  and the tunnel and brought water into the city,  are written in the Historical Record of Judah’s Kings.


The priest Zadok and the prophet Nathan have anointed him king in Gihon.  They have gone up from there rejoicing. The town has been in an uproar; that’s the noise you heard.


Then the priest Zadok, the prophet Nathan, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Cherethites, and the Pelethites  went down, had Solomon ride on King David’s mule, and took him to Gihon.


He sought God  throughout the lifetime of Zechariah, the teacher of the fear  , of God. During the time that he sought the Lord, God gave him success.


so he consulted with his officials and his warriors about stopping up the water of the springs that were outside the city, and they helped him.


After this, he built the outer wall of the city of David from west of Gihon  in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate;  he brought it round Ophel,  and he heightened it considerably. He also placed military commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah.





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