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yet now make an agreement with my lord the king of the Assyrians, and I will give you two thousand horses, if ye shall be able to set riders upon them.
9
And how can ye turn to the face of the satraps? They that trust on the Egyptians for horse and rider, are servants.
10
And now, Have we come up against this land to fight against it without the Lord? The Lord said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
11
Then Eliakim and Somnas and Joach said to him, Speak to thy servants in the Syrian tongue; for we understand : and speak not to us in the Jewish tongue: and wherefore speakest thou in the ears of the men on the wall?
12
And Rabsaces said to them, Has my lord sent me to your lord or to you, to speak these words? not me to the men that sit on the wall, that they may eat dung, and drink water together with you?
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.