2 Chronicles 32:1-6
<01697> [these things.]
King .... Assyria <04428 0804> [king of Assyria.]
seize <01234> [win them. Heb. break them up.]
intended ... attack <04421 06440> [he was purposed to fight. Heb. his face was to war.]
consulted <03289> [took counsel.]
stopping <05640> [to stop.]
stopped <05640> [who stopped.]
This was prudently done; for, without water, how could an immense army subsist in ar arid country? No doubt the Assyrian army suffered much through this; as a Christian army did, through the same cause, 1,800 years afterwards.
stream <05158> [the brook.]
flowed through <08432 07857> [ran through the midst of. Heb. overflowed. kings.]
The Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic read king, in the singular number.
find <04672> [find.]
energetically .............. fortified <02388> [he strengthened.]
broken <06555> [that was broken.]
wall ........ wall <02346 0312> [another wall.]
terrace <04407> [Millo.]
weapons <07973> [darts. or, swords, or weapons.]
appointed ... officers <08269 05414> [he set captains.]
square <07339> [in the street.]
encouraged ... saying <03824 0559> [comfortably to them. Heb. to their heart.]
2 Chronicles 32:30
<03169> [Hezekiah.]
Or, "Hezekiah stopped the upper going out ({motza,} i.e., the egress into the open air,) of the waters of Gihon, and brought them underneath, ({lemattah,} by a subterraneous course,) to the west of the city of David:" See Note on 1 Ki 1:45.
dammed up <05640> [stopped.]
Gihon <01521> [Gihon.]
<03169> [And Hezekiah.]
