^26 (A)Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in ^(B)Aramaic, for we understand it; and do not speak to us in ^[a]Hebrew in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

⁷ In the days of ^(A)Artaxerxes also, ^[a]Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabel, and the rest of their companions wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the letter was written in ^(B)Aramaic script, and translated into the Aramaic language.

⁴ Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in Aramaic, ^(A)“O^[a] king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will give the interpretation.”

¹¹ Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; and do not speak to us in ^[a]Hebrew in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

¹² But the Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat and drink their own waste with you?”

¹⁸ And when they had called to the king, ^(A)Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, Shebna the ^[a]scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came out to them.