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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Gill's Exposition
So there was gathered much people together,.... At the instance of Hezekiah, his nobles and officers:
who stopped all the fountains; perhaps by laying planks over them, and earth upon them, so that…
Barnes' Notes
To stop the waters ... - Compare 2Ch 32:30. Hezekiah’s object was probably twofold - to hide the springs outside the city in order to distress the Assyrians, and to convey their water underground into…
Here is, I. The formidable design of Sennacherib against Hezekiah's kingdom, and the vigorous attempt he made upon it. This Sennacherib was now, as Nebuchadnezzar was afterwards, the terror and…
Cambridge Bible
to stop the waters Cp. 2Ki 20:20 ("[Hezekiah] made the pool and the conduit and brought water into the city") and Isa 22:9; Isa 22:11.
At the present day there is an underground tunnel cut through…
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