2 Chronicles 32:3
New Revised Standard Version
he planned with his officers and his warriors to stop the flow of the springs that were outside the city; and they helped him.

New American Bible
he took the advice of his princes and warriors to stop the waters of the springs outside the city; they promised their help.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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,

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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,

took counsel

2 Chronicles 30:2 For the king, taking counsel, and the princes, and all the assembly of Jerusalem, decreed to keep the phase the second month.

2 Kings 18:20 Perhaps thou hast taken counsel, to prepare thyself for battle. On whom dost thou trust, that thou darest to rebel?

Proverbs 15:22 Designs are brought to nothing where there is no counsel: but where there are many counsellors, they are established.

Proverbs 20:18 Designs are strengthened by counsels: and wars are to be managed by governments.

Proverbs 24:6 Because war is managed by due ordering: and there shall be safety where there are many counsels.

Isaiah 40:13 Who hath forwarded the spirit of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor, and hath taught him?

Romans 11:34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been his counsellor?

to stop

2 Kings 20:20 And the rest of the acts of Ezechias, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought waters into the city, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?

Isaiah 22:8-11 And the covering of Juda shall be discovered, and thou shalt see in that day the armoury of the house of the forest. . . .

Context
Sennacherib Invades Judah
2And when Ezechias saw that Sennacherib was come, and that the whole force of the war was turning against Jerusalem, 3He 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,4He 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.…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 32:2
And when Ezechias saw that Sennacherib was come, and that the whole force of the war was turning against Jerusalem,

2 Chronicles 32:4
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.

Isaiah 22:11
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.

Nahum 3:14
Draw thee water for the siege, build up thy bulwarks: go into the clay, and tread, work it and make brick.

2 Chronicles 32:2
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