1. After these things and this truth, come hath Sennacherib king of Asshur, yea, he cometh in to Judah, and encampeth against the cities of the bulwarks, and saith to rend them unto himself.
2. And Hezekiah seeth that Sennacherib hath come, and his face [is] to the battle against Jerusalem,
3. and he taketh counsel with his heads and his mighty ones, to stop the waters of the fountains that [are] at the outside of the city--and they help him,
4. and much people are gathered, and they stop all the fountains and the brook that is rushing into the midst of the land, saying, `Why do the kings of Asshur come, and have found much water?'