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2 Kings 18:27

Rabshakeh

25 So now, was it apart from the LORD that I have come up against this place to destroy it? The LORD Himself said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”

26 Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, along with Shebnah and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak with us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”

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

28 Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out loudly in Hebrew: “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria!

29 This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you; he cannot deliver you from my hand.

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BSB
But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”
KJV
But Rab-shakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
WEB
But Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me to your master and to you, to speak these words? Hasn’t he sent me to the men who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own urine with you?”
ASV
But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? [hath he] not [sent me] to the men that sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own water with you?
DARBY
And Rab-shakeh said to them, Is it to thy master and to thee that my master sent me to speak these words? Is it not to the men that sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?
BLB
And the Rabshakeh said to them, “And is [it] for your master, to you [only], [that] my master has sent me to speak these words? Is [it] not for the men sitting on the wall, [who are] to eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you⁺?”
ÅB
Men Rabsake svarte: Er det til din herre og til deg min herre har sendt meg for å tale disse ord? Er det ikke til de menn som sitter på muren og må spise sitt eget skarn og drikke sitt eget vann slik som dere selv?
OTB
Men Rabsjake sa til dem, “Har min herre sendt meg bare til din herre og til deg for å tale disse ordene, og ikke til mennene som sitter på muren, som er dømt til å spise sin egen avføring og drikke sitt eget urin med deg?”
B1930
Men Rabsake svarte: Er det til din herre og til dig min herre har sendt mig for å tale disse ord? Er det ikke til de menn som sitter på muren og må ete sitt eget skarn og drikke sitt eget vann likesom I selv?

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Cross references

  • 2 Kings 6:25

    So there was a great famine in Samaria. Indeed, they besieged the city so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter cab of dove’s dung sold for five shekels of silver.

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  • Ezekiel 4:15

    “Look,” He replied, “I will let you use cow dung instead of human excrement, and you may bake your bread over that.”

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  • Psalms 73:8

    They mock and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression.

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  • Deuteronomy 28:53–57

    Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you.

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  • Lamentations 4:5

    Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.

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  • Ezekiel 4:13

    Then the LORD said, “This is how the Israelites will eat their defiled bread among the nations to which I will banish them.”

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