2 Kings 18:24-26

Holman Christian Standard Bible

²⁴ How then can you drive back a single officer^(A) among the least of my master’s servants and trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? ²⁵ Have I attacked this place to destroy it without the Lord’s approval?^(B) The Lord said to me, ‘Attack this land and destroy it.’”

²⁶ Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, Shebnah, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic,^(C) since we understand it. Don’t speak with us in Hebrew^[a] within earshot of the people on the wall.”