2 Kings 18:26

26 Then ¹Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and ²Shebnah, and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in ³Aramaic, for we understand it. Do not speak to us in the language of Judah within the hearing of the people who are on the wall. ”

2 Kings 18:26 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 18:26

(See Gill on 2 Kings 18:17)

2 Kings 18:26 In-Context

24 How then can you repulse a single captain among the least of my master’s servants, when you trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

25 Moreover, is it without the Lord that I have come up against this place to destroy it? The Lord said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it. ’”

26 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Do not speak to us in the language of Judah within the hearing of the people who are on the wall. ”

27 But the Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are doomed with you to eat their own dung and to drink their own urine? ”

28 Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out in a loud voice in the language of Judah: “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria!

Cross References

• 1. 18:26 [See ver. 18 above]
• 2. 18:26 [See ver. 18 above]
• 3. 18:26 [Ezra 4:7; Dan. 2:4]