2 Chronik 32:30

Schlachter Bibel

Er, Hiskia, war es auch, der den obern Ausfluß des Wassers Gihon verstopfte und es westlich abwärts, zur Stadt Davids leitete; und Hiskia hatte Glück in allem, was er unternahm.

Parallel Translations

Lutherbible (1912)
Er ist der Hiskia, der die obere Wasserquelle in Gihon zudeckte und leitete sie hinunter abendwärts von der Stadt Davids; denn Hiskia war glücklich in allen seinen Werken.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Hezekiah: Or, "Hezekiah stopped the upper going out (motza, i.e., the egress into the open air), of the waters of Gihon, and brought them underneath (lemattah, by a subterraneous course), to the west of the city of David." See note on 1 Kings 1:45.

stopped: 2 Chronicles 32:4, Isaiah 22:9-11

Gihon: 1 Kings 1:33, 1 Kings 1:38, 1 Kings 1:45

And Hezekiah: Joshua 1:7, Joshua 1:8, Psalms 1:1-3

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 18:7 - he prospered 2 Kings 20:20 - he made a pool 2 Chronicles 33:14 - Gihon Nehemiah 2:14 - the gate of the fountain Nehemiah 3:15 - the gate

Gill's Notes on the Bible

This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper water course of Gihon,.... Which Procopius Gazeus says was the same with Siloam, and which it seems had two streams, and this was the upper one; Mr. Maundrell says c, the pool of Gihon

"lies about two furlongs without Bethlehem gate westward; it is a stately pool, one hundred and six paces long, and sixty seven broad, and lined with wall and plaster, and was, when we were there, well stored with water:''

and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David; through canals under the plain of the city of David; as the Targum, by a subterraneous passage; and Siloam, as Dr. Lightfoot d observes from Josephus, was behind the west wall, not far from the corner that pointed toward the southwest:

and Hezekiah prospered in all his works; natural, civil, and religious, 2 Chronicles 31:21.

c Journey from Aleppo, &c. p. 108. d Chorograph. in John, c. 5. sect. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See 2 Chronicles 32:3 note. Either then or afterward, Hezekiah conducted the water of this spring by an underground channel down the Tyropoeon valley to a pool or reservoir (marginal reference).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 32:30. The upper watercourse — He made canals to bring the waters of Gihon from the west side of Jerusalem to the west side of the city of David.