2 Chronicles 32:3-4

32:3 he consulted with his advisers and military officers about stopping up the springs ¹  outside the city, and they supported him. 32:4 A large number of people gathered together and stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the district. ²  They reasoned, ³  “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?”

2 Chronicles 32:11

32:11 Hezekiah says, “The Lord our God will rescue us from the power ⁴  of the king of Assyria.” But he is misleading you and you will die of hunger and thirst! ⁵ 

¹ tn Heb “the waters of the springs.”

² tn Heb “and they closed up all the springs and the stream that flows in the midst of the land.” Here אָרֶץ (’arets, “land”) does not refer to the entire land, but to a smaller region like a district.

³ tn Heb “land, saying.”

³ tn Heb “hand.”

⁴ tn Heb “Is not Hezekiah misleading you to give you over to die by hunger and thirst, saying, ‘The Lord our God will rescue us from the hand of the king of Assyria’?’