24 How then can you drive back even [a]one [b]official of the least of my master’s servants, and [c]rely on Egypt for chariots and horsemen? 25 Have I now come up without [d]the Lords approval 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, Shebnah, and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, “Speak now to your servants in Aramaic, because we [e]understand it; and do not speak with us in [f](A)Judean [g]so that the people who are on the wall hear you.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 18:24 Lit the face of one
  2. 2 Kings 18:24 Or governor
  3. 2 Kings 18:24 Lit rely for yourself
  4. 2 Kings 18:25 Lit the Lord
  5. 2 Kings 18:26 Lit hear
  6. 2 Kings 18:26 I.e., Hebrew
  7. 2 Kings 18:26 Lit in the ears of...wall

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