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2 Chronicles 32:4
Jewish Publication Society 1917 · Berean Standard Bible
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?’
Many people assembled and stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the land. “Why should the kings (note: Hebrew; LXX and Syriac king) of Assyria come and find plenty of water?” they said.