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?”

[32:3]  ¹ tn Heb “the waters of the springs.”

[32:4]  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.

[32:4]  ³ tn Heb “land, saying.”