The water sources from the ocean depths were blocked and the floodgates of the heavens were closed.

Abimelech and his units attacked and blocked the entrance to the city's gate. Two units then attacked all the people in the field and struck them down.

Then many people were gathered, and they blocked off all the springs and the river that flowed through the midst of the land, saying, "Why should the kings of Assyria come and find much water?"

This same Hezekiah blocked the outlet of the water of the Upper Gihon and channeled it smoothly downward and westward to the city of David. Hezekiah succeeded in everything he did.

He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.

He has blocked every road I take with a wall of hewn stones; he has made every path impassable.

That is why we wanted to come to you. Certainly I, Paul, wanted to come time and again, but Satan blocked our way.