 | Norman Macleod - 1866 - 422 pàgines
...midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water ? " Hezekiah also "stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David." Earthquakes, which have often shaken these hills and shattered these... | |
 | Carl Ritter - 1866 - 436 pàgines
...Jerusalem, p. 83. course of the channels which he opened was from north to south. The words are : he " stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David." When the Assyrian king had passed victoriously over southern Judah,... | |
 | James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 492 pàgines
...flocks and herds in abun-dance: for God had given him substance very much. 80This 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. 81 Howbeit in the business... | |
 | 1867 - 1216 pàgines
...flocks and herds in abundance; for God had given him substance very much. 30 This same Hezekiah also in west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works. 31 Howbeit, in the business... | |
 | 1867 - 806 pàgines
...and brought water into the city ;" 28 6HOKT NOTES. ••:d also, in a parallel passage, " that Is stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of DÍTÍÍ" These two passages show tkdy the method by which the King supplied... | |
 | William King Tweedie - 1871 - 152 pàgines
...Birket-el-Mammilla, and there is an unwonted concord in regarding this as the reservoir concerning which we read that Hezekiah " stopped the upper water-course of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David " (2 Chron. xxxii. 30). An aqueduct leading from the pool into the city... | |
 | Augustus A. Lyne - 1872 - 514 pàgines
...out of the rock, and is doubtless of very great antiquity. We read also in 2 Chron. xxxii. 30, that Hezekiah ' stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David.' Therefore, in my humble opinion, {his is the pool. On leaving the... | |
 | William Smith - 1872 - 998 pàgines
...down the Tyropteon, that llezekiah turned the waters on the other side of the city, when he " stop|>ed the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David" (2 C'hr xxxii. 30). The rush of water down these conduits is referred... | |
 | 1873 - 258 pàgines
...in the Valley of Jehoshaphat. 2 Chron. xxxiii. 14. Gihon was thus the Fountain of the Virgin. Thus Hezekiah " stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David." 2 Chron. xxxii. 30. The city of David was certainly the eastern hill,... | |
 | Henry Martyn Harman - 1873 - 348 pàgines
...contained no water. Mention is made, 2 Chronicles xxxii. 30, of the upper pool : " This Hezekiah also stopped the upper water-course of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David." I also visited the fountain En-Rogcl, called the Well of Job. It is... | |
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This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. 
