2nd Chronicles Chapter 32 verse 3 Holy Bible
he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which were without the city; and they helped him.
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He took up with his rulers and men of war the question of stopping up the water-springs outside the town; and they gave him their support.
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he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the fountains of waters that were outside the city; and they helped him.
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He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which were without the city: and they did help him.
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He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which were without the city: and they helped him.
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he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the springs which were outside of the city; and they helped him.
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and he taketh counsel with his heads and his mighty ones, to stop the waters of the fountains that `are' at the outside of the city -- and they help him,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - To stop the waters of the fountains... without the city. These fountains or springs were probably those represented by En Rogel, on the Ophel spur or very large mound, or fortified hill (mistranslated possibly from that circumstance "tower," in 2 Kings 5:24; Isaiah 32:14), on the southeast of the temple. The object of Hezekiah is obvious enough. The word (סָתַּם) for "stopping" occurs in all thirteen times - twice in piel in Genesis, once in niph. in Nehemiah, and ten times in kal in Kings, Chronicles, Daniel, Ezekiel, and Psalms. It is for all material purposes very uniformly rendered in all these places by the word "stop" eight times, and otherwise "shut" or "closed," or to carry a derived meaning, "hidden" or "secret." If the word "shut" or "shut off" were employed, it would fit every occasion. So we are not told here how he stopped the fountain or fountains, but that he shut the waters off from one direction and guided them into another, vie. by a conduit running westward from the springs and the Gihon (i.e. the brook) flowing naturally down the Tyropoean valley to a pool prepared for it in the city (see our ver. 30; and 2 Kings 18:17; 2 Kings 20:20; Ecclus, 48:17; and Conder's 'Handbook to the Bible,' p. 339). This pool was very probably none other than the pool of Siloam.
