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24 How then can you [a]turn away one [b]official of the least of my master’s servants, and trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? 25 So now, have I come up [c]without the approval of Yahweh against this place to make it a ruin? Yahweh said to me, ‘Go up against this land and make it a ruin.’”’”

26 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, “Speak now to your servants in Aramaic, for we [d]understand it; and do not speak with us in [e](A)Judean in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 18:24 Lit turn away the face of
  2. 2 Kings 18:24 Or governor
  3. 2 Kings 18:25 Lit without Yahweh
  4. 2 Kings 18:26 Lit hear
  5. 2 Kings 18:26 Hebrew