2 Chronicles 32:2-6 ▼

2 Now when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come and that he intended to make war on Jerusalem,

3 he decided with his officers and his warriors to cut off the [supply of] water from the springs which [were] outside the city, and they helped him.

4 So many people assembled and stopped up all the springs and the stream which flowed through the region, saying, |Why should the kings of Assyria come and find abundant water?|

5 And he took courage and rebuilt all the wall that had been broken down and erected towers on it, and [built] another outside wall and strengthened the Millo [in] the city of David, and made weapons and shields in great number.

6 He appointed military officers over the people and gathered them to him in the square at the city gate, and spoke encouragingly to them, saying,