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2 Kings 18:26-28
New American Standard Bible
2 Kings 18:26-28
New American Standard Bible
26 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, Shebnah, and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, “Speak now to your servants in Aramaic, because we [a]understand it; and do not speak with us in [b](A)Judean [c]so that the people who are on the wall hear you.” 27 But Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me only to your master and to you to speak these words? Has he not also sent me to the men who sit on the wall, doomed to eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”
28 Then Rabshakeh stood up and shouted with a loud voice in Judean, [d]saying, “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria!
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- 2 Kings 18:26 Lit hear
- 2 Kings 18:26 I.e., Hebrew
- 2 Kings 18:26 Lit in the ears of...wall
- 2 Kings 18:28 Lit and spoke, saying,
2 Kings 18:26-28
New International Version
2 Kings 18:26-28
New International Version
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.”
27 But the commander replied, “Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the people sitting on the wall—who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?”
28 Then the commander stood and called out in Hebrew, “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria!
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