1. After these things, and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself.
2. And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem,
3. he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which were without the city; and they helped him.
4. So there was gathered much people together, and they stopped all the fountains, and the brook that flowed through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come and find much water?