2 Chronicles 32:3

32:3 he consulted with his advisers and military officers about stopping up the springs ¹  outside the city, and they supported him.

2 Chronicles 18:26

18:26 Say, ‘This is what the king says: “Put this man in prison. Give him only a little bread and water ²  until I return safely.”’”

2 Chronicles 32:30

32:30 Hezekiah dammed up the source of the waters of the Upper Gihon and directed them down to the west side of the City of David. ³  Hezekiah succeeded in all that he did.

2 Chronicles 32:4

32:4 A large number of people gathered together and stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the district. ⁴  They reasoned, ⁵  “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?”

¹ tn Heb “the waters of the springs.”

² tn Heb “the bread of affliction and the water of affliction.”

³ sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

⁴ 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.

⁵ tn Heb “land, saying.”