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 

Isaiah 22:9-11

22:9 You saw the many breaks

in the walls of the city of David; ⁶ 

you stored up water in the lower pool.

22:10 You counted the houses in Jerusalem, ⁷ 

and demolished houses so you could have material to reinforce the wall. ⁸ 

22:11 You made a reservoir between the two walls

for the water of the old pool –

but you did not trust in ⁹  the one who made it; ¹⁰ 

you did not depend on ¹¹  the one who formed it long ago!

Isaiah 37:25

37:25 I dug wells

and drank water. ¹² 

With the soles of my feet I dried up

all the rivers of Egypt.’

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.”

⁴ tn Heb “hand.”

⁵ 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’?’

⁶ tn Heb “the breaks of the city of David, you saw that they were many.”

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⁸ tn Heb “you demolished the houses to fortify the wall.”

⁹ tn Heb “look at”; NAB, NRSV “did not look to.”

¹⁰ tn The antecedent of the third feminine singular suffix here and in the next line is unclear. The closest feminine noun is “pool” in the first half of the verse. Perhaps this “old pool” symbolizes the entire city, which had prospered because of God’s provision and protection through the years.

¹¹ tn Heb “did not see.”

¹² tc The Hebrew text has simply, “I dug and drank water.” But the parallel text in 2 Kgs 19:24 has “foreign waters.” זָרִים (zarim, “foreign”) may have accidentally dropped out of the Isaianic text by homoioteleuton (cf. NCV, NIV, NLT). Note that the preceding word, מַיִם (mayim, “water) also ends in mem (ם). The Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a has “foreign waters” for this line. However, in several other passages the 1QIsa^a scroll harmonizes with 2 Kgs 19 against the MT (Isa 36:5; 37:9, 20). Since the addition of “foreign” to this text in Isaiah by a later scribe would be more likely than its deletion, the MT reading should be accepted.