Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 32:30
This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
30. stopped ] Cp. 2Ch 32:3-4.
the upper watercourse ] R.V. the upper spring of the waters.
Gihon ] The upper spring of Gihon is perhaps represented to-day by St Mary’s Well; cp. Bdeker, p. 99, and note on 2Ch 32:3 above.
to the west side] R.V. on the west side. The present Lower Pool of Siloam is rather to the S.E. of the present Jerusalem but it may have been S.W. of the ancient City of David. The Ambrosian MS. of Pesh. reads, on the east side, and this may be right.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
See 2Ch 32:3 note. Either then or afterward, Hezekiah conducted the water of this spring by an underground channel down the Tyropoeon valley to a pool or reservoir (marginal reference).
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 30. The upper watercourse] He made canals to bring the waters of Gihon from the west side of Jerusalem to the west side of the city of David.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
The upper water-course of Gihon; a rivulet near Jerusalem consisting of two streams, the upper, which was brought into one pool, called the upper pool, Isa 7:3; and the lower, which was brought into another, called the lower pool, Isa 22:9. The former he diverted and brought by secret pipes into Jerusalem, which was a work of great art, and labour, and policy, and therefore is here commended.
Brought it straight down; whereas before it fetched a compass, and thereby might have been beneficial to the Assyrian host.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
30. stopped the . . . watercourse ofGihon, and brought it . . . to the west side of the city,c.(Compare 2Ki 20:20).Particular notice is here taken of the aqueduct, as among thegreatest of Hezekiah’s works. “In exploring the subterraneanchannel conveying the water from Virgin’s Fount to Siloam, Idiscovered a similar channel entering from the north, a few yardsfrom its commencement and on tracing it up near the Mugrabin gate,where it became so choked with rubbish that it could be traversed nofarther, I there found it turn to the west in the direction ofthe south end of the cleft, or saddle, of Zion, and if this channelwas not constructed for the purpose of conveying the waters ofHezekiah’s aqueduct, I am unable to suggest any purpose to which itcould have been applied. Perhaps the reason why it was not broughtdown on the Zion side, was that Zion was already well-watered in itslower portion by the Great Pool, ‘the lower pool of Gihon.’ Andaccordingly WILLIAMS [HolyCity] renders this passage, ‘He stopped the upper outflow of thewaters of Gihon, and led them down westward to the city'”[BARCLAY, City of theGreat King]. The construction of this aqueduct required not onlymasonic but engineering skill; for the passage was bored through acontinuous mass of rock. Hezekiah’s pool or reservoir made to receivethe water within the northwest part of the city still remains. It isan oblong quadrangular tank, two hundred forty feet in length, fromone hundred forty-four to one hundred fifty in breadth, but, fromrecent excavations, appears to have extended somewhat farther towardsthe north.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper water course of Gihon,…. Which Procopius Gazeus says was the same with Siloam, and which it seems had two streams, and this was the upper one; Mr. Maundrell says c, the pool of Gihon
“lies about two furlongs without Bethlehem gate westward; it is a stately pool, one hundred and six paces long, and sixty seven broad, and lined with wall and plaster, and was, when we were there, well stored with water:”
and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David; through canals under the plain of the city of David; as the Targum, by a subterraneous passage; and Siloam, as Dr. Lightfoot d observes from Josephus, was behind the west wall, not far from the corner that pointed toward the southwest:
and Hezekiah prospered in all his works; natural, civil, and religious, 2Ch 31:21.
c Journey from Aleppo, &c. p. 108. d Chorograph. in John, c. 5. sect. 2.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(30) This same Hezekiah also stopped.And he, Hezekiah, had closed in the upper outlet of the waters of Gihon. (See 2Ch. 32:3.)
And brought . . . city of David.And conducted them underground to the west of the city of David. (Comp. 2Ki. 20:20, where also this great work of Hezekiah is referred to in concluding his history: He made the pool, and the aqueduct, and brought the waters into the city.) The chronicler gives further details.
Brought it straight.Directed or conducted them (wayyashshrm; the form in the Hebrew margin is a peculiar contraction of the ordinary piel form which appears in the text).
And Hezekiah prospered.2Ch. 31:21; 1Ch. 29:23.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
2Ch 32:30 This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
Ver. 30. Stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon. ] See 2Ch 32:4 .
And Hezekiah prospered.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
stopped. The latest discoveries prove that the upper pool (Gihon) is identical with En-rogel (= the Fuller’s Spring), now “the Virgin’s Fount”. A rock-hewn channel was cut from this westward to “the lower pool of Gihon, and eastward to Siloam”. On the water supply at that time, see Isa 7:3; Isa 8:6; Isa 22:9-11; Isa 36:2. Compare 2Ch 32:3, 2Ch 32:4 and 2Ki 20:20.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Hezekiah: Or, “Hezekiah stopped the upper going out (motza, i.e., the egress into the open air), of the waters of Gihon, and brought them underneath (lemattah, by a subterraneous course), to the west of the city of David.” See note on 1Ki 1:45.
stopped: 2Ch 32:4, Isa 22:9-11
Gihon: 1Ki 1:33, 1Ki 1:38, 1Ki 1:45
And Hezekiah: Jos 1:7, Jos 1:8, Psa 1:1-3
Reciprocal: 2Ki 18:7 – he prospered 2Ki 20:20 – he made a pool 2Ch 33:14 – Gihon Neh 2:14 – the gate of the fountain Neh 3:15 – the gate
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2Ch 32:30. Hezekiah stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon A rivulet near Jerusalem, consisting of two streams, the upper, which was brought into one pool, called the upper pool, (Isa 7:3,) and the lower, which was brought into another, called the lower pool, Isa 22:9. The former he diverted, and brought by pipes into Jerusalem, which was a work of great art and labour. And brought it straight down to the city of David Whereas before it fetched a compass, and therefore might have been beneficial to the Assyrian host.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
32:30 This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of {t} Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
(t) Which also was called Shiloh, of which mention is made in Isa 8:6, Joh 9:7.