2 Crónicas 32:4

Listen to 2 Crónicas 32:4
4 Organizaron una gran cuadrilla de trabajadores para cegar los manantiales, como consecuencia se cort贸 el arroyo que corr铆a por los campos, porque dijeron: 芦驴Por qu茅 han de venir aqu铆 los reyes de Asiria y encontrar abundancia de agua?禄.

2 Crónicas 32:4 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 32:4

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 ) .

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2 Crónicas 32:4 In-Context

2 Cuando Ezequ铆as se dio cuenta de que Senaquerib tambi茅n pensaba atacar a Jerusal茅n,
3 consult贸 con sus funcionarios y consejeros militares, y decidieron bloquear los manantiales fuera de la ciudad.
4 Organizaron una gran cuadrilla de trabajadores para cegar los manantiales, como consecuencia se cort贸 el arroyo que corr铆a por los campos, porque dijeron: 芦驴Por qu茅 han de venir aqu铆 los reyes de Asiria y encontrar abundancia de agua?禄.
5 Luego Ezequ铆as se esforz贸 en reparar todas las secciones ca铆das de la muralla, erigi贸 torres y construy贸 una segunda muralla exterior a la primera. Tambi茅n reforz贸 los terraplenes
en la Ciudad de David y fabric贸 grandes cantidades de armas y escudos.
6 Design贸 oficiales militares con mando sobre los habitantes y los reuni贸 delante de 茅l en la plaza junto a la puerta de la ciudad. Luego Ezequ铆as les dio 谩nimo diciendo:
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