You made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but you have not looked to the maker of it, neither had respect to him that fashioned it long ago.
And the rest of the deeds of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
And the city was broken into, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king’s garden: (now the Chaldees were next to the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.
After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the half part of Beth-zur, to the place opposite the sepulchers of David, and to the pool that was made, and to the house of the mighty.
Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help; and rely on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they do not look to the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!
Have you not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that you should lay waste fortified cities into heaps of ruins.
Then said the LORD to Isaiah, Go out now to meet Ahaz, you, and Shear-jashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the field of laundry;
And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king’s garden, by the gate between the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain.