²⁶ Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, and Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic,^(A) since we understand it. Don’t speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”

²⁸ Then the commander stood and called out in Hebrew, “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria!