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2 Kings 18:25-27
Evangelical Heritage Version
2 Kings 18:25-27
Evangelical Heritage Version
25 Have I now come up against this place without the Lord? The Lord said to me, “Go up against this land and destroy it.”
26 Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, along with Shebna and Joah, said to the herald, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. But don’t speak with us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”
27 Then the herald said to them:
Is it only to your lord and to you that my lord sent me to speak these words? Is it not also to the people who are sitting on the wall, who will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine with you?[a]
Footnotes
- 2 Kings 18:27 The terms for excrement and urine are apparently coarse, because the scribal notes substitute euphemisms for them.
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