2 Chronicles 32:2-6 ▼

2 As soon as Hezekiah learned that Sennacherib had arrived and had determined to attack Jerusalem,

3 he developed a plan with his commanders and his elite forces to cut off the water supply from the springs that were outside the city, and they helped him to carry it out.

4 Many people gathered together and plugged up all the springs, along with the stream that flowed through the region. They were thinking to themselves, |Why should the Assyrian kings invade and discover an abundant water supply?|

5 Hezekiah took courage and rebuilt all of the walls that had been broken down. Then he erected watch towers on them, and added another external wall. He fortified the terrace ramparts in the City of David and prepared a large number of weapons and shields.

6 He appointed military officers to take charge of the people, who gathered them together in the square near the city gate and spoke to them encouragingly,