2 Kings 18:27

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And Rabshakeh responded to them, saying: "Has my lord sent me to your lord and to you, so that I may speak these words, and not instead to the men who are sitting upon the wall, so that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own urine with you?"

Cross References

2 Kings 18:17

Then the king of the Assyrians sent Tartan, and Rabsaris, and Rabshakeh, from Lachish, to king Hezekiah, with a powerful hand, to Jerusalem. And when they had ascended, they arrived in Jerusalem, and they stood beside the aqueduct of the upper pool, which is along the way of the fuller's field.

2 Kings 18:26

Then Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, said to Rabshakeh: "We beseech you, that you may speak to us, your servants, in Syriac. For we understand that language to some extent. And do not speak to us in the Jews' language, in the hearing of the people, who are upon the wall."

2 Kings 18:28

And so, Rabshakeh stood up, and he exclaimed in a great voice, in the Jews' language, and he said: "Listen to the words of the great king, the king of the Assyrians.

2 Kings 6:25

And a great famine occurred in Samaria. And it was blockaded for a long time, until the head of a donkey was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and one fourth part of a pint of pigeons' dung sold for five silver coins.

Psalm 73:8

They have said in their heart, the whole group of them together: "Let us cause all the feast days of God to cease from the land.

Isaiah 36:12

And Rabshakeh said to them: "Has my lord sent me to your lord and to you in order to speak all these words, and not even more so to the men who are sitting on the wall, so that they may eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?"

Lamentations 4:4

DALETH. The tongue of the infant adheres to his palate out of thirst. The little ones have asked for bread, and there was no one to break it for them.

Lamentations 4:5

HE. Those who were fed indulgently have passed away in the roads. Those who were nourished with saffron have welcomed filth.

Ezekiel 4:13

And the Lord said: "So shall the sons of Israel eat their bread, polluted among the Gentiles, to whom I will cast them out."

Ezekiel 4:15

And he said to me: "Behold, I have given to you cow manure in place of human dung, and you shall make your bread with it."