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Sirach 48:17 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Hezekiah fortified his city, and brought water into its midst. He tunneled through rock with iron, and built cisterns for water. "

Sirach 48:17

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15 For all this the people didn’t repent. They didn’t depart from their sins, until they were carried away as a plunder from their land, and were scattered through all the earth. The people were left very few in number, but with a ruler from the house of David.

16 Some of them did that which was right, but some multiplied sins.

17 Hezekiah fortified his city, and brought water into its midst. He tunneled through rock with iron, and built cisterns for water.

18 In his days Sennacherib invaded, and sent Rabshakeh, and departed. He lifted up his hand against Zion, and boasted great things in his arrogance.

19 Then their hearts and their hands were shaken, and they were in pain, as women in labor.

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2 Chronicles 32:30

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"This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper spring of the waters of Gihon, and brought them straight down on the west side of David’s city. Hezekiah prospered in all his works."

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2 Chronicles 32:27

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"Hezekiah had exceedingly great riches and honor. He provided himself with treasuries for silver, for gold, for precious stones, for spices, for shields, and for all kinds of valuable vessels;"

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2 Kings 20:20

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"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, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?"

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Isaiah 36:2

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"The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah with a large army. He stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool in the fuller’s field highway."

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2 Kings 18:17

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"The king of Assyria sent Tartan, Rabsaris, and Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem. When they had come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field."

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1 Maccabees 14:37

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"He placed Jews in it and fortified it for the safety of the country and the city, and made high the walls of Jerusalem."

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Sirach 48:1

"Then Elijah arose, the prophet like fire. His word burned like a torch."

Sirach 48:2

"He brought a famine upon them, and by his zeal made them few in number."

Sirach 48:3

"By the word of the Lord he shut up the heavens. He brought down fire three times."

Sirach 48:4

"How you were glorified, O Elijah, in your wondrous deeds! Whose glory is like yours?"

Sirach 48:5

"You raised up a dead man from death, from Hades, by the word of the Most High."

Sirach 48:6

"You brought down kings to destruction, and honorable men from their sickbeds."

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