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._ Stopped the ... water course of Gihon, and brought it ... to the west side of the city ... - (cf. 2 Kings 20:20.) Particular notice is here taken of the aqueduct, as among the greatest of Hezekiah's works. 'In exploring the subterranean channel conveying the water from Virgin's Fount to Siloam, I discovered a similar channel entering from the north, a few yards from its commencement; and on tracing it up near the Mugrabin Gate, where it became so choked with rubbish that it could be traversed no further, I there found it turned to the west, in the direction of the south end of the cleft, or saddle, of Zion; and if this channel was not constructed for the purpose of conveying the waters of Hezekiah's

24-33 God left Hezekiah to himself, that, by this trial and his weakness in it, what was in his heart might be known; that he was not so perfect in grace as he thought he was. It is good for us to know ourselves, and our own weakness and sinfulness, that we may not be conceited, or self-confident, but may always live in dependence upon Divine grace. We know not the corruption of our own hearts, nor what we shall do if God leaves us to ourselves. His sin was, that his heart was lifted up. What need have great men, and good men, and useful men, to study their own infirmities and follies, and their obligations to free grace, that they may never think highly of themselves; but beg earnestly of God, that he will always keep them humble! Hezekiah made a bad return to God for his favours, by making even those favours the food and fuel of his pride. Let us shun the occasions of sin: let us avoi...

Verse 2 Chronicles 32:30. _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....

See 2 Chronicles 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)....

EXPOSITION This chapter of thirty-three verses is paralleled by the sixty-one verses that begin with 2 Kings 18:13 and end with 2 Kings 19:37; and by Isaiah 36:1; Isaiah 37:1. Our chapter gives, as might be anticipated, but a very partial and somewhat broken account, therefore,_ _of this stretch of Hezekiah's career, and no adequate impression whatever of the great power of some portions of the parallel. A close comparison of the two places leaves us tolerably clear as to the order and consecutiveness of the history, although perhaps not entirely so. The style of our present chapter betrays the usual marks of di

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, 2 Chronicles 31:2

CHAPTER 32 SENNACHERIB'S INVASION, THE DELIVERANCE, AND THE PASSING OF HEZEKIAH _ 1. Sennacherib's invasion (2 Chronicles 32:1)_ 2. The king's counsel and trust in God (2 Chronicles 32:3) 3. Sennacherib's threatening and arrogance (2 Chronicles 32:9) 4. Sennacherib's defiance of God (2 Chronicles 32:17) 5. Hezekiah's and Isaiah's prayer (2 Chronicles 32:20) 6. The deliverance ...

2 Chronicles 29:1 to 2 Chronicles 32:33. THE REIGN OF HEZEKIAH (see notes on 2 Kings 18:2 f., 2 Kings 18:13; 2 Kings 18:19; 2 Kings 20:1). The Chronicler in this long section writes, from his own point of view, much that is quite unhistorical. The three main subjects treated by him here are Hezekiah's reopening of the Temple, the Passover, and the appointment of the Temple officials. In...

STOPPED. The latest discoveries prove that the upper pool (Gihon) is identical with En-rogel (= the Fuller _'_. Spring), now "the Virgin _'_. Fount".. 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 Isaiah 7:3; Isaiah 8:6; Isaiah 22:9; Isaiah 36:2. Compare 2 Chronicles 32:3; 2 Chronicles 32:4 and...

_stopped_ Cp. 2 Chronicles 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. _Bädeker_, p. 99, and note on 2 Chronicles 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....