2 Chronicles 32:4
Many people assembled and stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the land. “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?” they said.
Note Hebrew; LXX and Syriac king
So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?
Note ran: Heb. overflowed
Then many people gathered together and they stopped all the springs and the brook that flowed through the middle of the land, saying, “Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find abundant water?”
So there was gathered much people together, and they stopped all the fountains, and the brook that flowed through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- the brook
- 2 Chronicles 32:30; 2 Chronicles 30:14
- ran through the midst of
- Heb. overflowed. kings. The Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic read king, in the singular number.
- 2 Chronicles 32:1; 2 Kings 18:9, 13; 2 Kings 19:17; Isaiah 10:8
- find
- 1 Kings 3:9, 16, 17; 1 Kings 19:21