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2 Chronicles 32:3

New American Bible - revised edition

he took the advice of his princes and warriors to stop the waters of the springs outside the city; they promised their help.

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Do you think mere words substitute for strategy and might in war? In whom, then, do you place your trust, that you rebel against me?

The rest of the acts of Hezekiah, with all his valor, and how he constructed the pool and conduit and brought water into the city, are recorded in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah.

The king, his princes, and the entire assembly in Jerusalem had agreed to celebrate the Passover during the second month.

When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was coming with the intention of attacking Jerusalem,

This same Hezekiah stopped the upper outlet for water from Gihon and redirected it underground westward to the City of David. Hezekiah prospered in all his works.

A large force was gathered and stopped all the springs and also the stream running nearby. For they said, “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find an abundance of water?”

Plans fail when there is no counsel, but they succeed when advisers are many.

Plans made with advice succeed; with wise direction wage your war.

For by strategy war is waged, and victory depends on many counselors.

Who has directed the spirit of the Lord, or instructed him as his counselor?

Draw water for the siege, strengthen your fortresses; Go down into the mud and tread the clay, take hold of the brick mold!

“For who has known the mind of the Lord or who has been his counselor?”




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