2 Chronicles 32:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

A great many people were gathered, and they stopped all the springs and the wadi that flowed through the land, saying, “Why should the Assyrian kings come and find water in abundance?”

Cross References

1 Kings 19:21

He returned from following him, took the yoke of oxen, and slaughtered them; using the equipment from the oxen, he boiled their flesh and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he set out and followed Elijah and became his servant.

1 Kings 3:9

Give your servant, therefore, an understanding mind to govern your people, able to discern between good and evil, for who can govern this great people of yours?”

2 Kings 18:13

In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, King Sennacherib of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.

2 Kings 18:9

In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of King Hoshea son of Elah of Israel, King Shalmaneser of Assyria came up against Samaria, besieged it,

2 Kings 19:17

Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands

2 Kings 20:20

The rest of the deeds of Hezekiah, all his power, how he made the pool and the conduit and brought water into the city, are they not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Judah?

2 Chronicles 30:14

They set to work and removed the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for offering incense they took away and threw into the Wadi Kidron.

2 Chronicles 32:1

After these things and these acts of faithfulness, King Sennacherib of Assyria came and invaded Judah and encamped against the fortified cities, thinking to win them for himself.

2 Chronicles 32:3

he planned with his officers and his warriors to stop the flow of the springs that were outside the city, and they helped him.

2 Chronicles 32:30

This same Hezekiah closed the upper outlet of the waters of Gihon and directed them down to the west side of the city of David. Hezekiah prospered in all his works.

Isaiah 10:8

For he says: “Are not my commanders all kings?

Isaiah 22:11

You made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you did not look to him who did it or have regard for him who planned it long ago.

Isaiah 22:9

and you saw that there were many breaches in the city of David, and you collected the waters of the lower pool.

Nahum 3:14

Draw water for the siege; strengthen your forts; trample the clay; tread the mortar; take hold of the brick mold!