And Hezekiah himself had stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and had directed them beneath the west of the city of David; and Hezekiah prospered in all his work.
And the king said to them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and you shall cause my son Solomon to ride on the mule which is to me, and cause him to go down to Gihon.
And Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites went out and caused Solomon to ride on King David’s mule, and caused him to go to Gihon.
And they anointed him, Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet, as king in Gihon. And they have come up from there rejoicing. And the city was roaring. It is the noise that you heard.
And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made the pool, and the conduit, and brought in the waters to the city, are they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Judah?
And many people were gathered, and they stopped all the fountains, and the torrent that was rushing through the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come and find much water?
And after this he built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west of Gihon, in the valley, and turned around Ophel, and he made it exceedingly high, and he put commanders of the army in all the cities he had in Judah.