2 Kings 18:26-28

The Voice

Eliakim, Shebnah, and Joah (to Rabshakeh): ²⁶ This needs to be a private conversation. Please speak to your servants in a different tongue—Aramaic—for we understand it and do not need you to speak to us in Judean. That way everyone on the walls won’t be able to understand you.

Rabshakeh: ²⁷ How arrogant and foolish of you! Do you think I have been sent here by my king to talk to only you and your king? I am to speak to everyone. Soon you and these men on the walls will surely be doomed to fill your bellies with your own dung and quench your thirst with your own urine.

²⁸ (loudly in Judean) Listen to what Assyria’s mighty king has to say!