Jer 41:9 | TNotes | STEP | 41:9 dug by King Asa when he fortified Mizpah: See 2 Chr 16:1-6 . That passage does not refer to cisterns, but the need for water and grain storage would have required such structures, and several cisterns have been found in the ruins of the city.

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‏ Jeremiah 41:9

41:9 ^a dug by King Asa when he fortified Mizpah: See 2 Chr 16:1-6 ^b. That passage does not refer to cisterns, but the need for water and grain storage would have required such structures, and several cisterns have been found in the ruins of the city.