2 Kings 20:20

His might. — See 2 Chronicles 32; Isaiah 33:18; Psalms 48:12-13.

A pool... a conduit... water. — Rather, the pool... the conduit... the water. The pool of Hezekiah is now the Birket-Hammâm-el-Batrak. (See Notes on 2 Chronicles 32:4; 2 Chronicles 32:30, and Isaiah 7:3.)

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²⁰ And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

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Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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