2 Chronicles 32:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³He 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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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 15:22
Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
Proverbs 24:6
For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Proverbs 20:18
Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.
2 Chronicles 30:2
For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.
2 Kings 20:20
And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

Topics

Armory Generals, Distinguished Jebus Jerusalem Salem Sennacherib Walls, of the Cities Zion

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-8)

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 scourge and great oppressor of that part of the world. He aimed to raise a boundless monarchy for himself upon the ruins of all his neighbours. His predecessor Shalmaneser had lately made himself master of…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

2-8. when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib ... was purposed to fight against Jerusalem--An account of the means taken to fortify Jerusalem against the threatened siege is given only in this passage. The polluting or filling up of wells, and the altering of the course of rivers, is an old practice that still obtains in the wars of the East. Hezekiah’s plan was to cover the fountain heads, so that they…