1. After these things, and their establishment, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fortified cities, and thought to win them for himself.
2. And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come, and that he 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 were assembled many people, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?