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And Rapsakes said to them, Has my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? not to the men who sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own water together with you.
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And now have we come up without the Lord against this place to destroy it? The Lord said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
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And Heliakim the son of Chelkias, and Somnas, and Joas, said to Rapsakes, Speak now to thy servants in the Syrian language, for we understand it; and speak not with us in the Jewish language: and why dost thou speak in the ears of the people that are on the wall?
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And Rapsakes said to them, Has my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? not to the men who sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own water together with you.
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And Rapsakes stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jewish language, and spoke, and said, Hear the words of the great king of the Assyrians:
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thus says the king, Let not Ezekias encourage you with words: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.