²⁷ The chief commander said to them, “Is it solely to your master and to you my master has sent me to speak these words? Is it not for the men who sit on the wall to eat their feces and to drink their urine with you?”

²⁸ Then the chief commander stood and called with a great voice in Judean, and he spoke and said, “Hear the word of the king, the great king of Assyria! ²⁹ Thus says the king, ‘Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to rescue you from my^[a] hand.