32After Hezekiah’s faithful deeds, King Sennacherib of Assyria came and entered Judah. He laid siege to the fortified cities and intended^C to break into them.^j ²Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come and that he planned^D war on Jerusalem, ³so he consulted with his officials and his warriors about stopping up the water of the springs that were outside the city, and they helped him. ⁴Many people gathered and stopped up all the springs^k and the stream that flowed through the land;^l they said, “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find abundant water?” ⁵Then Hezekiah strengthened his position by rebuilding the entire broken-down wall^m and heightening the towers and the other outside wall.ⁿ He repaired the supporting terraces^o of the city of David, and made an abundance of weapons and shields.

⁶He set military commanders over the people and gathered the people in the square of the city gate. Then he encouraged them,^E^p saying, ⁷“Be strong and courageous!^q Don’t be afraid or discouraged before the king of Assyria or before the large army that is with him, for there are more with us than with him.^r ⁸He has only human strength,^F but we have the Lord our God to help us and to fight our battles.”^s So the people relied on the words of King Hezekiah of Judah.

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Footnotes

C said to himself
D that his face was for
E he spoke to their hearts
F With him an arm of flesh

Cross references

j 2Kg 18:13; Is 36:1
k 2Kg 20:20
l 2Ch 32:30
m 2Ch 25:23
n 2Kg 25:4
o 2Sm 5:9; 1Kg 9:15
p 2Ch 30:22
q Dt 31:6; Jos 1:6–9; 10:25; 1Ch 22:13; Ps 31:24
r 2Kg 6:16; 1Jn 4:4
s 2Ch 20:17; Is 31:3; Jr 17:5