| II Chronicles 32:3
| He took counsel with the princes, and the most valiant men, to stop up the heads of the springs, that were without the city: and as they were all of this mind,
| City. The torrent Cedron afforded the only good supply of water. It was often dry, and was only three steps across, when full of melted snow or rain. The waters of Siloe and Gihon were collected in it. Yet it was no very difficult enterprise for the king to turn the stream, and introduce the waters through the rock into a large reservoir, in the city, by the canal, which is mentioned [in] 2 Esdras 2:14., and Ecclesiasticus 48:19. The besieged were more frequently deprived of water, Judith 7:6. Babylon was taken by Semiramis, Cyrus, and Alexander, after they had turned aside the waters of the Euphrates; and Caesar obliged the town of Cahors to surrender, by intercepting the springs. (Frontin. 3:7.) (Calmet)
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