2 Chronicles 32:30
Good News Translation
It was King Hezekiah who blocked the outlet for Gihon Spring and channeled the water to flow through a tunnel to a point inside the walls of Jerusalem. Hezekiah succeeded in everything he did,

New Revised Standard Version
This same Hezekiah closed the upper outlet of the waters of Gihon and directed them down to the west side of the city of David. Hezekiah prospered in all his works.

Contemporary English Version
It was Hezekiah who built a tunnel that carried the water from Gihon Spring into the city of Jerusalem. In fact, everything he did was successful!

New American Bible
This same Hezekiah stopped the upper outlet for water from Gihon and redirected it underground westward to the City of David. Hezekiah prospered in all his works.

Douay-Rheims Bible
This same Ezechias was, he that stopped the upper source of the waters of Gihon, and turned them away underneath toward the west of the city of David: in all his works he did prosperously what he would.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

This same Ezechias was, he that stopped the upper source of the waters of Gihon, and turned them away underneath toward the west of the city of David: in all his works he did prosperously what he would.

1 Kings 1:45 And Sadoc, the priest, and Nathan, the prophet, have anointed him king, in Gihon: and they are gone up from thence rejoicing, so that the city rang again: this is the noise that you have heard.

stopped

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 22:9-11 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, . . .

Gihon

1 Kings 1:33,38,45 He said to them: Take with you the servants of your lord, and set my son Solomon upon my mule: and bring him to Gihon: . . .

And Hezekiah

Joshua 1:7,8 Take courage therefore, and be very valiant: that thou mayst observe and do all the law, which Moses my servant hath commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayst understand all things which thou dost. . . .

Psalm 1:1-3 Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence: . . .

Context
Hezekiah's Illness and Recovery
29And he built himself cities: for he had flocks of sheep, and herds without number, for the Lord had given him very much substance. 30This same Ezechias was, he that stopped the upper source of the waters of Gihon, and turned them away underneath toward the west of the city of David: in all his works he did prosperously what he would.31But yet in the embassy of the princes of Babylon, that were sent to him, to inquire of the wonder that had happened upon the earth, God left him that he might be tempted, and all things might be made known that were in his heart.…
Cross References
1 Kings 1:33
He said to them: Take with you the servants of your lord, and set my son Solomon upon my mule: and bring him to Gihon:

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?

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.

2 Chronicles 32:29
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