Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
2 Chronicles 32:4
The brook] lit. 'torrent-valley.' The Gihon spring was in the ravine of the Kidron.
The brook] lit. 'torrent-valley.' The Gihon spring was in the ravine of the Kidron.
Verse 2 Chronicles 32:4. _STOPPED ALL THE FOUNTAINS_] This was prudently done, for without water how could an immense army subsist in an _arid_ _country_? No doubt the Assyrian army suffered much thr...
The “brook” intended is probably not the Kidron, but the natural water-course of the Gihon, which ran down the Tyropoeon valley (compare the 1 Kings 1:3 note)....
CHAPTER 32 SENNACHERIB'S INVASION, THE DELIVERANCE, AND THE PASSING OF HEZEKIAH _ 1. Sennacherib's invasion (2 Chronicles 32:1)_ 2. The king's counsel and trust in God (2 Chronicles 32:3) 3. Sennac...
2 Chronicles 29:1 to 2 Chronicles 32:33. THE REIGN OF HEZEKIAH (see notes on 2 Kings 18:2 f., 2 Kings 18:13;...
THE BROOK. the overflow: i.e. Gihon, which frequently did so. KINGS. the [great] king. Plural of majesty....
_who stopt_ R.V. AND THEY STOPPED. _the brook that ran_ R.V. THE BROOK THAT FLOWED. The Heb. verb means "flow with strong stream" (as a flood). We naturally look for such a brook either east of Jerusa...
2 Chronicles 32:1-8 (cp. 2 Kings 18:13-16). Sennacherib's threatened Invasion. Hezekiah's Precautions The Chronicler introduces us somewhat abruptly to the Assyrian crisis. From 2 Kin. we learn first...
THE BROOK THAT RAN THROUGH THE MIDST OF THE LAND— As a plentiful fountain was very necessary, in that country, at the places, where they were wont to rendezvous; so the want of water must have been ve...
14. THE REIGN OF HEZEKIAH (29-32) TEXT 2 Chronicles 29:1. Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old; and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was A...
_SO THERE WAS GATHERED MUCH PEOPLE TOGETHER, WHO STOPPED ALL THE FOUNTAINS, AND THE BROOK THAT RAN THROUGH THE MIDST OF THE LAND, SAYING, WHY SHOULD THE KINGS OF ASSYRIA COME, AND FIND MUCH WATER?_ SO...
2 CHRONICLES: GOD DESIRES LOYAL PEOPLE The *Kingdom called Judah 2 CHRONICLES CHAPTER S 10 TO 36 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 32 SENNACHERIB COMES TO ATTACK JERUSALEM – 2 CHRONICLES 32:1-23...
THE FOUNTAINS. — _Ma‘yânôth._ 2 Chronicles 32:3 has “springs” (_‘ayânôth_). THE BROOK. — _Nàchal._ “The _wâdy.”_ The Gihon is meant, a watercourse in the Valley of Hinnom, supplied with water by the s...
(1-23) Invasion and Divine overthrow of Sennacherib. (Comp. 2 Kings 18:13 to 2 Kings 19:37.) The Assyrian monarch’s own record of the campaign may be read on his great hexagonal prism of terra-cotta,...
PREPARATIONS FOR THE DEFENCE (2 Chronicles 32:2). This section is peculiar to the Chronicles. Its contents are “perfectly credible” (_Thenius_)_,_ and are borne out by Isaiah 22:8, and 2 Kings 20:20,...
וַ יִּקָּבְצ֣וּ עַם ־רָ֔ב וַֽ יִּסְתְּמוּ֙ אֶ
HEZEKIAH: THE RELIGIOUS VALUE OF MUSIC 2 Chronicles 29:1; 2 Chronicles 30:1; 2 Chronicles 31:1;...
PREPARED TO MEET THE FOE 2 Chronicles 32:1 We might have supposed that Hezekiah's faithfulness in cleansing the Temple and restoring the worship of Jehovah would have secured for him and his people c...
One is almost inevitably halted by the opening statement of the chapter. "After these things, and this faithfulness, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came." It would seem to be a strange answer of God to...
_Land, Cedron, on the east; (C.; M.) or it may be the Gihon, which supplies Siloe, v. 30. T._...
This is an interesting account of the plan Hezekiah pursued against the invader; and which is not related to us in the parallel history in the book of the Kings. But what I most admire is Hezekiah's f...
God fully answered the king's faith; but the iniquity of the people's heart was little changed, and the ways of God in judgment began to be manifested; and in such a manner as to make it evident that,...
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 i...
So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water? Ver...
_To stop the waters of the fountains_ To fill them up with earth and other things cast into them, that it might not be known there was any water there, and withal to draw the waters by secret passages...
1 Sennacherib inuading Iudah, Hezekiah fortifieth himselfe and encourageth his people. 9 Against the blasphemies of Sennacherib by message and letters, Hezekiah & Isaiah pray. 21 An Angel destroyeth...
So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, by covering over the cisterns and removing all evidences of the presence of any pools, AND THE BROOK THAT RAN THROUGH THE MID...
Sennacherib's Invasion...
ASSYRIA THREATENS JUDAH (vv.1-18) Assyria had before this conquered the ten tribes (2 Kings 17:1), and their king, Sennacharib, confident of taking Judah also, came to encamp against the fortified c...
RAN: _ Heb._ overflowed...
1-23 Those who trust God with their safety, must use proper means, else they tempt him. God will provide, but so must we also. Hezekiah gathered his people together, and spake comfortably to them. A b...
Which was a scarce commodity in this country, and the want of it might much annoy the Assyrian army....
2 Chronicles 32:4 many H7227 people H5971 together H6908 (H8735) stopped H5640 (H8799) springs H4599 brook H51
CONTENTS: Invasion of Sennacherib. His army defeated in answer to prayer. CHARACTERS: God, Hezekiah, Isaiah, angel. CONCLUSION: A believing confidence in God will raise us above the prevailing fear...
2 Chronicles 32:1. _Sennacherib king of Assyria,_ Our knowledge of the once great and flourishing empire of the Assyrians, is very imperfect. Berosus, a native of Chaldea, has written the most; Herodo...
_Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?_ STOPPING THE FOUNTAINS Nothing was more thought of in ancient times in order to add to the greatness of a city than an abundant water supp...
2 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 2 CHRONICLES 32:1, 2 CHRONICLES 32:30 Hezekiah built a new WATER system for Jerusalem. A tunnel brought water directly fr
CRITICAL NOTES.] Sen. invades Israel (2 Chronicles 32:1); H.’s preparations to meet him (2 Chronicles 32:6); Sen.’s seductions (2 Chronicles 32:9); Sen.’s letter ...
EXPOSITION This chapter of thirty-three verses is paralleled by the sixty-one verses that begin with 2 Kings 18:13 and end with 2 Kings 19:37; and by Isaiah 36:1;...
Now in chapter 32, we find that, Sennacherib, the king of Assyria was coming against them, he entered into Judah, and he encamped against the fenced cities, he thought to win them for himself. And whe...
1 Kings 19:21; 1 Kings 3:16; 1 Kings 3:17; 1 Kings 3:9; 2 Chron