So there was gathered much people together, and they stopped all the fountains, and the brook that flowed through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?
he gaderide togidere a ful greet multitude, and þei stoppiden alle þe wellis, and þe ryuer, þat flowide in þe myddis of þe lond; and seiden, Lest þe kyngis of Assiriens comen, and fynden abundance of watris.