2 Kings 18:26-28

International Standard Version

²⁶ At this, Hilkiah’s son Eliakim, Shebnah, and Joah asked Rab-shakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, because we understand it, but don’t speak the language of Judah to us within the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

²⁷ But Rab-shakeh spoke to them, “Has my master sent me to talk about this just to your master and to you, and not also to the men who are sitting on the wall, who will soon be eating their own feces and drinking their own urine^[a]—along with you?” ²⁸ Then Rab-shakeh stood up and cried out loud, “Listen to what the great king, the king of Assyria has to say.