2 Chronicles 32:30 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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The upper water-course of Gihon; a rivulet near Jerusalem consisting of two streams, the upper, which was brought into one pool, called the upper pool, Isaiah 7:3; and the lower, which was brought into another, called the lower pool, Isaiah 22:9. The former he diverted and brought by secret pipes into Jerusalem, which was a work of great art, and labour, and policy, and therefore is here commended. Brought it straight down; whereas before it fetched a compass, and thereby might have been beneficial to the Assyrian host.

2 Chronicles 32:30

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.