2 Kings 18:27

A Conservative Version

But Rabshakeh said to them, Has my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? [Has he] not [sent me] to the men who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own urine with you?

Cross References

Ezekiel 4:15

Then he said to me, See, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shall prepare thy bread of it.

Ezekiel 4:13

And LORD said, Even thus shall the sons of Israel eat their bread unclean among the nations where I will drive them.

Lamentations 4:5

Those who fed luxuriously are desolate in the streets. Those who were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

Psalm 73:8

They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression. They speak loftily.

2 Kings 6:25

And there was a great famine in Samaria. And, behold, they besieged it until a donkey's head was sold for eighty [pieces] of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five [pieces] of silver.

2 Kings 18:17

And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rab-saris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they came up, they came and stood by the conduit of the

2 Kings 18:26

Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language, for we understand it. And do not speak with us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people

2 Kings 18:28

Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spoke, saying, Hear ye the word of the great king, the king of Assyria.

Isaiah 36:12

But Rabshakeh said, Has my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words, [and] not to the men who sit upon the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own urine with you?

Lamentations 4:4

The tongue of the sucking child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst. The young sons ask bread, and no man breaks it to them.