2 Kings 18:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field.

The king

2 Chronicles 32:9

Isaiah 20:1

Isaiah 36:2

The conduit of the upper pool

General references

Isaiah 29:3

Bible References

The king

After this Sennacherib king of Assyria sent his servants to Jerusalem while he was besieging Lachish with all his forces with him, against Hezekiah king of Judah and against all Judah who were at Jerusalem, saying,

In the year that the

commander came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him and he fought against Ashdod and captured it,

And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah with a large army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool on the highway of the fuller’s field.

The conduit of the upper pool

Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah and all his might, and how he made the pool and the conduit and brought water into the city, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

Then the Lord said to Isaiah, “Go out now to meet Ahaz, you and your son Shear-jashub, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway to the fuller’s field,

And you saw that the breaches
In the wall of the city of David were many;
And you collected the waters of the lower pool.

And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah with a large army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool on the highway of the fuller’s field.

General references

I will camp against you encircling you,
And I will set siegeworks against you,
And I will raise up battle towers against you.