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? ’
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.
After Hezekiah’s faithful deeds, King Sennacherib of Assyria came and entered Judah. He laid siege to the fortified cities and intended to break into them.
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.
In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Israel’s King Hoshea son of Elah, Assyria’s King Shalmaneser marched against Samaria and besieged it.
So he turned back from following him, took the team of oxen, and slaughtered them. With the oxen’s wooden yoke and plough, he cooked the meat and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he left, followed Elijah, and served him.
So give your servant a receptive heart to judge your people and to discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of yours? ’
You made a reservoir between the walls for the water of the ancient pool, but you did not look to the one who made it, or consider the one who created it long ago.