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11 And Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we can understand[a] it, and you must not speak to us in Judean in the hearing[b] of the people who are on the wall.”

12 But[c] Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me to speak these words to your masters and you? Was it not for the people who sit on the wall, to eat their dung and drink their urine[d] with you?”

13 Then[e] Rabshakeh stood and called in a great voice in Judean and said, “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 36:11 Or “hear”
  2. Isaiah 36:11 Literally “ear”
  3. Isaiah 36:12 Or “And”
  4. Isaiah 36:12 So Masoretic Hebrew text (Kethib); the reading tradition (Qere) has “feet-water”
  5. Isaiah 36:13 Or “And”