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.

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.

Sennacherib Threatens Jerusalem^(A)(B)

32 After all that Hezekiah had so faithfully done, Sennacherib^(C) king of Assyria came and invaded Judah. He laid siege to the fortified cities, thinking to conquer them for himself.

¹⁴ They removed the altars^(A) in Jerusalem and cleared away the incense altars and threw them into the Kidron Valley.^(B)

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?

¹⁷ “It is true, Lord, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste these nations and their lands.

¹³ In the fourteenth year^(A) of King Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah^(B) and captured them.

⁹ In King Hezekiah’s fourth year,^(A) which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria and laid siege to it.

²¹ So Elisha left him and went back. He took his yoke of oxen^(A) and slaughtered them. He burned the plowing equipment to cook the meat and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he set out to follow Elijah and became his servant.^(B)