³⁰ It was Hezekiah who blocked^(A) the upper outlet of the Gihon^(B) spring and channeled^(C) the water down to the west side of the City of David. He succeeded in everything he undertook.

³³ he said to them: “Take your lord’s servants with you and have Solomon my son mount my own mule^(A) and take him down to Gihon.^(B)

BOOK I

Psalms 1–41

Psalm 1

⁴ They gathered a large group of people who blocked all the springs^(A) and the stream that flowed through the land. “Why should the kings^[a] of Assyria come and find plenty of water?” they said.

²⁰ As for the other events of Hezekiah’s reign, all his achievements and how he made the pool^(A) and the tunnel^(B) by which he brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?

⁴⁵ and Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king at Gihon. From there they have gone up cheering, and the city resounds^(A) with it. That’s the noise you hear.

³⁸ So Zadok^(A) the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites^(B) and the Pelethites went down and had Solomon mount King David’s mule, and they escorted him to Gihon.^(C)

⁷ “Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey^(A) all the law^(B) my servant Moses^(C) gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left,^(D) that you may be successful wherever you go.^{(E) 8} Keep this Book of the Law^(F) always on your lips;^(G) meditate^(H) on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.^(I)