Add parallel Print Page Options

27 But Rab-shakeh spoke to them, “Has my master sent me to talk about this just to your master and to you, and not also to the men who are sitting on the wall, who will soon be eating their own feces and drinking their own urine[a]—along with you?” 28 Then Rab-shakeh stood up and cried out loud, “Listen to what the great king, the king of Assyria has to say. 29 This is what the king says:

‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you, because he will prove to be unable to deliver you from my control.[b]

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 18:27 An alternate MT reading is own water at their feet
  2. 2 Kings 18:29 Lit. hand