2 Kings 18:26-28

Living Bible

²⁶ Then Eliakim, Shebnah, and Joah said to them, “Please speak in Aramaic, for we understand it. Don’t use Hebrew, for the people standing on the walls will hear you.”

²⁷ But the Assyrian general replied, “Has my master sent me to speak only to you and to your master? Hasn’t he sent me to the people on the walls too? For they are doomed with you to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine!”

²⁸ Then the Assyrian ambassador shouted in Hebrew to the people on the wall, “Listen to the great king of Assyria!