2 Chronicles 32:2-6 ▼

2 When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come and intended to fight against Jerusalem,

3 he planned with his officers and his warriors to stop the flow of the springs that were outside the city; and they helped him.

4 A great many people were gathered, and they stopped all the springs and the wadi that flowed through the land, saying, “Why should the Assyrian kings come and find water in abundance?”

5 Hezekiah set to work resolutely and built up the entire wall that was broken down, and raised towers on it, and outside it he built another wall; he also strengthened the Millo in the city of David, and made weapons and shields in abundance.

6 He appointed combat commanders over the people, and gathered them together to him in the square at the gate of the city and spoke encouragingly to them, saying,