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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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.
For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.
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?
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…
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