2 Kings 18:26-28

New Catholic Bible

²⁶ Then Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah said to the commander, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Please do not speak to us in Hebrew when the people who are upon the wall can hear it.”^[a]

²⁷ But the commander said to them, “My master has not sent me just to you and your master to say these things, but to the men sitting on the wall who may have to eat their own dung and drink their own urine like you.”

²⁸ The commander then stood and cried out in a loud voice in Hebrew, “Hear the word of the great king of Assyria!