3<\/strong>. to stop the waters<\/em> ] Cp. 2Ki 20:20<\/span> (“[Hezekiah] made the pool and the conduit and brought water into the city”) and Isa 22:9<\/span>; Isa 22:11<\/span>.<\/p>\n At the present day there is an underground tunnel cut through the rock leading from St Mary’s Well down to the Lower Pool of Siloam. It is rudely constructed and owing to its windings is 586 yards long, though the distance in a straight line is only 368 yards. As therefore the Lower Pool was probably within the ancient walls, while St Mary’s Well was outside, this tunnel may be Hezekiah’s conduit. If the well were stopped, the besiegers would lose the water, which would collect in the Pool for the use of the besieged. An inscription in ancient Hebrew characters (“The Siloam Inscription”) discovered in situ<\/em> describes briefly the digging of the tunnel, but does not enable us to fix the date of it for certain. See for the original text Lidzbarski, Nordsemitische Epigraphik<\/em>, Tafel xxi. 1, and for an English translation, Sayce, Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments<\/em>, p. 87.<\/p>\n To stop the waters … – <\/B>Compare 2Ch 32:30<\/span>. Hezekiahs object was probably twofold – to hide the springs outside the city in order to distress the Assyrians, and to convey their water underground into the city, in order to increase his own supply during the siege.<\/P> <\/p>\n To stop the waters of the fountains, <\/B>with earth or other things cast into them; and withal to derive the waters by secret paths and pipes under ground to Jerusalem. <\/P> <\/p>\n He took counsel with his princes, and his mighty men<\/strong>,…. With his nobles, and the officers of his army, what steps should be taken to resist, retard, and distress the enemy, and among the rest what follows was proposed:<\/p>\n to stop the waters of the fountains which were without the city<\/strong>; that so the Assyrian army would find it difficult to supply themselves with water, which was an article of great importance:<\/p>\n and they did help him<\/strong>; to stop the fountains, not only with their advice how to do it, but with their men, their servants, who assisted those that Hezekiah employed in this work.<\/p>\n 3<\/strong>. <\/strong> To stop the waters of the fountains which were without the city <\/strong> The object was thereby to distress the enemy, by preventing him from obtaining water near the city. He probably not only hid the springs from view, but drew off the water by secret aqueducts into the city.<\/p>\n 2Ch 32:3 He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which [were] without the city: and they did help him.<\/p>\n Ver. 3. To stop the waters of the fountains.<\/strong> ] He trusted in God: but yet used the best means. God is to be trusted, but not tempted. See Isa 22:9<\/span> ; Isa 22:11<\/span> .<\/p>\n to stop. By covering up the fountain En-rogel (now known as “The Virgin’s Fount”), or Gihon (upper pool), on east side of Ophel. Discovered by Sir Charles Warren in 1867. This was brought down to the west side of the city by Hezekiah (2Ch 32:30. Compare 2Ki 20:20). En-rogel was stopped on the east side, and a channel cut through to the lower pool of Gihon on the west, and south to Siloam, a shaft running down to the water beneath Zion: referred to in Psa 46:4. This -is contrasted with the Assyrian host, which is compared in the previous verse to raging waters. Isaiah refers to these works (Isa 22:9-11). <\/p>\n took counsel: 2Ch 30:2, 2Ki 18:20, Pro 15:22, Pro 20:18, Pro 24:6, Isa 40:13, Rom 11:34 <\/p>\n to stop: 2Ki 20:20, Isa 22:8-11 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Nah 3:14 – Draw Rev 8:10 – the fountains<\/p>\n 2Ch 32:3-4. To stop the waters of the fountains To fill them up with earth and other things cast into them, that it might not be known there was any water there, and withal to draw the waters by secret passages and pipes to Jerusalem. And the brook that ran through the midst of the land The brook Kidron, which being but small, except when much rain fell, they easily filled up the spring of it. Saying, Why should the kings of Assyria find much water Which was scarce in that country, and the want of it might greatly distress the Assyrian army.<\/p>\n He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which [were] without the city: and they did help him. 3. to stop the waters ] Cp. 2Ki 20:20 (“[Hezekiah] made the pool and the conduit and brought water into the city”) and Isa 22:9; Isa 22:11. 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