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 (2 Chronicles 32:30. Compare 2 Kings 20:20). En-rogel was stopped on the east side, and. channel cut through to the lower pool of Gihon on the west, and south to Siloam,. shaft running down to the water beneath Zion: referred to in Psalms 46:4. This -is contrasted with the Assyrian host, which is compared in the previous verse to raging waters. Isaiah refers to these works (Isaiah 22:9-11).
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2 Chronicles 32:3
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.