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How, then, can you repulse even one officer from[a] the least of my master’s officials, when you are depending for yourselves[b] on Egypt for chariots and horsemen? 10 One other thing: have I really marched against this country to destroy it apart from the Lord’s direction?[c] The Lord himself ordered me, ‘March against this country to[d] destroy it.’”[e]

11 Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah replied to him,[f] “Please speak with[g] your servants—with us[h]—in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don’t speak to us in Hebrew[i] where the people sitting on[j] the wall can hear.”

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  1. Isaiah 36:9 So 1QIsaa; MT reads one of
  2. Isaiah 36:9 So 1QIsaa; MT reads yourself
  3. Isaiah 36:10 1QIsaa MT lack ‘s direction
  4. Isaiah 36:10 So 1QIsaa; MT reads and
  5. Isaiah 36:10 So 1QIsaa MT; LXX lacks The Lord himself ordered me, ‘March against this country to destroy it.’
  6. Isaiah 36:11 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads to the field commander
  7. Isaiah 36:11 So 1QIsaa; MT reads to
  8. Isaiah 36:11 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack —with us—
  9. Isaiah 36:11 Lit. in these words; so 1QIsaa; MT LXX read in the Judean language
  10. Isaiah 36:11 So 1QIsaa; the Heb. lacks sitting; cf. LXX