2 Chronicles 32:2-4

Christian Standard Bible

² Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come and that he planned^[a] war on Jerusalem, ³ so he consulted with his officials and his warriors about stopping up the water of the springs that were outside the city, and they helped him. ⁴ Many people gathered and stopped up all the springs^(A) and the stream that flowed through the land;^(B) they said, “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find abundant water?”