2 Chronicles 32:3
“He tooke counsel with his princes, and his mightie men, to stop the waters of the fountaines, which were without the citie: and they did helpe him.”
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2 Chronicles 32:3 Context
1After these things and the establishment therof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entred into Iudah, & encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to winne them for himselfe. 2And when Hezekiah sawe that Sennacherib was come, and that hee was purposed to fight against Ierusalem, 3He tooke counsel with his princes, and his mightie men, to stop the waters of the fountaines, which were without the citie: and they did helpe him. 4So there was gathered much people together, who stopt all the fountaines, and the brooke that ranne through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and finde much water? 5Also he strengthened himselfe, and built vp all the wall that was broken, and raised it vp to the towers, and another wall without, and prepared Millo in the citie of Dauid, and made darts and shields in abundance.
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He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which [were] without the city: and they did help him.
- King James Version
he decided with his officers and his warriors to cut off the {supply of} water from the springs which {were} outside the city, and they helped him.
- New American Standard Version (1995)