KJV King James Version
Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
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Isaiah 22:9
Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
You saw that there were many breaches in the walls of the City of David. You collected water from the lower pool.
WEB World English Bible
You saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
ASV American Standard Version
And ye saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And the breaches of the city of David ye have seen, For they have become many, And ye gather the waters of the lower pool,
Surrounding context — Isaiah 22
6 And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men [and] horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
7 And it shall come to pass, [that] thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.
8 And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.
9 Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
10 And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.
11 Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.
12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וְאֵ֨תH853 · et[Obj.]בְּקִיעֵ֧יH1233 · be.qi.abreachעִיר־H5892 · irexcitementדָּוִ֛דH1732 · da.vidDavidרְאִיתֶ֖םH7200 · ra.ahto see: seeכִּי־H3588 · kiforרָ֑בּוּH7231 · ra.vavto multiplyוַֽתְּקַבְּצ֔וּH6908 · qa.vatsto gatherאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]מֵ֥יH4325 · ma.yimwaterהַבְּרֵכָ֖הH1295 · be.re.khah(Shelah) Poolהַתַּחְתּוֹנָֽה׃H8481 · tach.tonLower (Beth Horon)
Cross-references
2 Kings 20:20And 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?2 Chronicles 32:1-6After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself.Nehemiah 3:16After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the half part of Bethzur, unto [the place] over against the sepulchres of David, and to the pool that was made, and unto the house of the mighty.2 Chronicles 32:30This 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.
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