2 Chronicles 32:3-5

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³ Hezekiah summoned his princes and officers for a council of war, and it was decided to plug the springs outside the city. ⁴ They organized a huge work crew to block them and to cut off the brook running through the fields.

“Why should the king of Assyria come and find water?” they asked.

⁵ Then Hezekiah further strengthened his defenses by repairing the wall wherever it was broken down, and by adding to the fortifications, and constructing a second wall outside it. He also reinforced Fort Millo in the City of David and manufactured large numbers of weapons and shields.