Isaiah 36:9-11

Expanded Bible

⁹ You cannot ·defeat [repel] one of my ·master’s [lord’s] least important officers, so why do you depend on Egypt to give you chariots and ·horsemen [charioteers]? ¹⁰ ·I have not [^LDo you think I have…?] come to attack and destroy this country without ·an order from the Lord [^Lthe Lord]. The Lord himself told me to come ·to [against] this country and destroy it [^Cechoing Isaiah’s prophecy that this is judgment from the Lord].’”

¹¹ Then Eliakim [22:20], Shebna [22:15], and Joah said to the ·field commander [chief advisor; or Rabshakeh], “Please speak to ·us [^Lyour servants] in the Aramaic language [^Cthe language of trade and diplomacy]. We understand it. Don’t speak to us in ·Hebrew [^LJudean], because the people on the city wall can hear you.”