How then can you [a]drive back even one [b]official of the least of my master’s servants and [c](A)rely on Egypt for chariots and horsemen? 10 And have I now come up [d]without the Lords approval against this land to destroy it? (B)The Lord said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”’”

11 Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in (C)Aramaic, for we [e]understand it; and do not speak to us in [f](D)Judean [g]so that the people who are on the wall hear you.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 36:9 Lit turn away the face of
  2. Isaiah 36:9 Or governor
  3. Isaiah 36:9 Lit rely on for yourself
  4. Isaiah 36:10 Lit without the Lord
  5. Isaiah 36:11 Lit hear
  6. Isaiah 36:11 I.e., Hebrew
  7. Isaiah 36:11 Lit in the ears of...wall

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