2 Tawarikh 32:4

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Maka berkumpullah banyak orang. Mereka menutup semua mata air dan sungai yang mengalir dari tengah-tengah negeri itu. Kata mereka: "Mengapa raja-raja Asyur harus mendapat banyak air, kalau mereka datang?"

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Maka berkumpullah banyak orang. Mereka menutup semua mata air dan sungai yang mengalir dari tengah-tengah negeri itu. Kata mereka: "Mengapa raja-raja Asyur harus mendapat banyak air, kalau mereka datang?"

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Dihimpunkannyalah banyak orang yang menumpatkan segala mata air dan lagi anak sungaipun yang mengalir pada sama tengah tanah itu, katanya: Betapa gerangan, apabila raja-raja Asyur itu datang kelak, didapatnya akan air dengan limpahnya?

Contextual Overview

¹ After that these deedes were faythfully done, Sennacherib king of the Assyrians came, and entred into Iuda, & compassed the strong cities, and thought to winne them for him selfe. ² And so when Hezekia sawe that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight against Hierusalem, ³ He toke counsell with his lordes and men of might, to stop the water of the fountaynes without the citie: And they dyd helpe him. ⁴ For there gathered many of the people together, and stopt all the welles, and the broke that ran through the middes of the land, saying: Why shall the kinges of the Assyrians come and finde much water? ⁵ And Hezekia went to lustyly, and buylt vp the wall where it was broken, and made ordinaunce vpon the towres, and to the other wall without, and repaired Millo in the citie of Dauid, and made many dartes and shieldes. ⁶ And he set captaynes of warre ouer the people, and gathered them together to him in the large streete of the gate of the citie, and spake gentylly to them, saying: ⁷ Plucke vp your heartes and be strong: be not afrayde nor discouraged for the king of the Assyrians, & for all the multitude that he hath with hym: for there be mo with vs then with hym. ⁸ With him is an arme of flesh: but with vs is the Lord our God for to helpe vs, and to fight our battayles. And the people toke a courage through the wordes of Hezekia king of Iuda.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

who stopped: This was prudently done; for, without water, how could an immense army subsist in ar arid country? No doubt the Assyrian army suffered much through this; as a Christian army did, through the same cause, 1,800 years afterwards.

the brook: 2 Chronicles 32:30, 2 Chronicles 30:14

ran through the midst of: Heb. overflowed

kings: The Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic read king, in the singular number. 2 Chronicles 32:1, 2 Kings 18:9, 2 Kings 18:13, 2 Kings 19:17, Isaiah 10:8

find: 1 Kings 3:9, 1 Kings 3:16, 1 Kings 3:17, 1 Kings 19:21

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 3:25 - stopped 2 Kings 20:20 - he made a pool Nahum 3:14 - Draw

Cross-References

Genesis 4:7
If thou do well, shalt thou not receaue? and yf thou doest not well, lyeth not thy sinne at the doores? Also vnto thee shall his desire be, and thou shalt haue dominion ouer hym.

Genesis 23:6
Heare vs my Lorde, thou art a prince of God amongest vs, in the chiefest of our sepulchres bury thy dead: none of vs shall forbyd thee his sepulchre, but thou mayest bury thy dead [therin.]

Genesis 27:29
People be thy seruauntes, and nations bowe to thee: be lorde ouer thy brethren, and thy mothers children stowpe with reuerence vnto thee: cursed be he that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.

Genesis 27:37
Isahac aunswered, and sayde vnto Esau: Beholde, I haue made hym thy Lorde, & all his brethren haue I made his seruauntes: Moreouer, with corne and wine haue I stablished him, what shall I do vnto thee nowe my sonne?

Genesis 32:5
And haue oxen, asses, and sheepe, menseruauntes, and womenseruauntes: and haue sent to shewe [it] my Lord, that I may finde grace in thy sight.

Genesis 32:18
Thou shalt say, they be thy seruaunt Iacobs, and it is a present sent vnto my Lorde Esau, and beholde, he him selfe commeth after vs.

Genesis 33:8
And he sayde: what is all the droue whiche I met? He aunswered: that I may finde grace in the sight of my lorde.

Exodus 32:22
And Aaron aunswered, Let not the wrath of my Lorde waxe fierce: thou knowest the people that they are [euen] set on mischiefe.

1 Samuel 26:17
And Saul knew Dauids voyce, and sayd: Is this thy voyce my sonne Dauid? And Dauid sayde: It is my voyce my lorde, O king.

1 Kings 20:32
And so they girded sackcloth about their loynes, & put ropes about their heades, and came to the king of Israel, and said: Thy seruaunt Benhadad sayth, I pray thee let me lyue. He sayde: Is he yet alyue? he is my brother.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 it could not be discerned there were any fountains there:

and the brook that ran through the midst of the land; which, according to Kimchi, was Gihon, 2 Chronicles 32:30, which was near Jerusalem; the stream of this very probably they turned into channels under ground, whereby it was brought into the city into reservoirs there provided, that that might have a supply during the siege, while the enemy was distressed for want of it:

saying, why should the kings of Assyria come and find much water? by which means they would be able to carry on the siege to a great length, when otherwise they would be obliged to raise it quickly: mention is made of kings of Assyria, though there was but one, with whom there might be petty kings, or tributary ones; and, besides, as he boasted, his princes were altogether kings, Isaiah 10:8.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The “brook” intended is probably not the Kidron, but the natural water-course of the Gihon, which ran down the Tyropoeon valley (compare the 1 Kings 1:3 note).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 32:4. Stopped all the fountains — This was prudently done, for without water how could an immense army subsist in an arid country? No doubt the Assyrian army suffered much through this, as a Christian army did eighteen hundred years after this. When the crusaders came, in A.D. 1099, to besiege Jerusalem, the people of the city stopped up the wells, so that the Christian army was reduced to the greatest necessities and distress.