2 Kings 18:26-28

Expanded Bible

²⁶ Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah said to the field commander, “Please speak to us in the Aramaic language. We understand it. Don’t speak to us in ·Hebrew [Judean], because the people on the city wall can hear you.”

²⁷ “No,” the commander said, “my ·master [lord] did not send me to tell these ·things [words] only to your ·master [lord] and you. He sent me to speak also to those people sitting on the wall who, like you, will have to eat their own dung and drink their own urine.”

²⁸ Then the commander stood and shouted loudly in ·the Hebrew language [Judean], “·Listen to what [^LHear the word of] the great king, the king of Assyria, says!