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Isaiah 36:11-13
Lexham English Bible
Isaiah 36:11-13
Lexham English Bible
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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- Isaiah 36:11 Or “hear”
- Isaiah 36:11 Literally “ear”
- Isaiah 36:12 Or “And”
- Isaiah 36:12 So Masoretic Hebrew text (Kethib); the reading tradition (Qere) has “feet-water”
- Isaiah 36:13 Or “And”
Isaiah 36:11-13
New International Version
Isaiah 36:11-13
New International Version
11 Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah(A) said to the field commander, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic,(B) since we understand it. Don’t speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
12 But the commander replied, “Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the people sitting on the wall—who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?(C)”
13 Then the commander stood and called out in Hebrew,(D) “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!(E)
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