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Bible Verses About Jerusalem: Water supply brought in from the Gihon by Hezekiah

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Verses on Water supply brought in from the Gihon by Hezekiah

  1. He took counsel with the princes, and the most valiant men, to stop up the heads of the springs, that were without the city: and as they were all of this mind,

  2. He gathered together a very great multitude, and they stopped up all the springs, and the brook, that ran through the midst of the land, saying: Lest the kings of the Assyrians should come, and find abundance of water.

  3. And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, and before the dragon fountain, and to the dung gate, and I viewed the wall of Jerusalem which was broken down, and the gates thereof which were consumed with fire.

  4. And I passed to the gate of the fountain, and to the king's aqueduct, and there was no place for the beast on which I rode to pass.

  5. And I went up in the night by the torrent, and viewed the wall, and going back I came to the gate of the valley, and returned.

  6. And you shall see the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and you have gathered together the waters of the lower pool,

  7. And have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and broken down houses to fortify the wall.

  8. And you made a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: and you have not looked up to the maker thereof, nor regarded him even at a distance, that wrought it long ago.