Today is the second day of August.

Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible.

I'm Brian.

It's great to be here with you today.

It's great to gather. It's great to be here with you today. It's great to have each other. I'm glad we can do this. Let's take that next step

forward together in the scriptures. That leads us back into Second Chronicles.

We'll be concluding Second Chronicles

within the next couple of days.

But here we are now, 2 Chronicles chapter 32 verse 1 through 33 verse

verse 13.

After Hezakaya's faithful deeds, Kinks and Akarib of Assyria came and entered Judah.

He laid siege to the fortified cities and intended to break into them.

Hezakaya saw that Senakirib had come and that he had planned war on Jerusalem,

so he consulted with his officials and his warriors about stopping up the

water of the springs that were outside the city, and they helped him.

Many people gathered and stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the land.

They said, why should the King of Assyria come and find abundant water?

Then Hezekiah strengthened his position by rebuilding the entire broken down wall and heightening the towers and the other outside wall.

He repaired the supporting terraces of the city of David and made an abundance of weapons and shields.

He set military commanders over the people and gathered the people in the square of the city

gates.

And he encouraged them saying,

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