2 Kings 18:24-26

The Voice

²⁴ How can you turn away a governor—even the least of my master’s governors—and lean on Egypt instead for horsemen and chariots? ²⁵ Do you think I have come here to destroy this land without the Eternal’s permission? He is the One who told me, “Go destroy it! I’ll support you.”

Eliakim, Shebnah, and Joah (to Rabshakeh): ²⁶ This needs to be a private conversation. Please speak to your servants in a different tongue—Aramaic—for we understand it and do not need you to speak to us in Judean. That way everyone on the walls won’t be able to understand you.