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Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, "Speaknow to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; and do not speak with us in 1Judean in the hearing of the peoplewho are on the wall."
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"How then can you repulse one official of the least of my master's servants, and rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
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"Have I now come up without the LORD'S approval against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, 'Go up against this land and destroy it.' ""'
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Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, "Speak now to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; and do not speak with us in Judean in the hearing of the people who are on the wall."
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But Rabshakeh said to them, "Has my master sent me only to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, doomed to eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?"
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Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in Judean, saying , "Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria.