2 Kings 18:27

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And Rabsaces answered them, saying: Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee, to speak these words, and not rather to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their urine with you?

Cross References

Ezekiel 4:15

And he said to me: Behold, I have given thee neat's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt make thy bread therewith.

Ezekiel 4:13

And the Lord said: So shall the children of Israel eat their bread all filthy among the nations whither I will cast them out.

Lamentations 4:5

He. They that were fed delicately have died in the streets; they that were brought up in scarlet have embraced the dung.

Psalm 73:8

They said in their heart, the whole kindred of them together: Let us abolish all the festival days of God from the land.

2 Kings 6:25

And there was a great famine in Samaria: and so long did the siege continue, till the head of an ass was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cabe of pigeon's dung, for five pieces of silver.

2 Kings 18:17

And the king of the Assyrians sent Tharthan and Rabsaris, and Rabsaces from Lachis to king Ezechias with a strong army to Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem: and they stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the way of the fuller's field.

2 Kings 18:26

Then Eliacim the son of Helcias, and Sobna, and Joahe said to Rabsaces: We pray thee speak to us thy servants in Syriac: for we understand that tongue. And speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the hearing of the people that are upon the wall.

2 Kings 18:28

Then Rabsaces stood, and cried out with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said: Hear the words of the great king, the king of the Assyrians.

Isaiah 36:12

And Rabsaces said to them: Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee, to speak all these words; and not rather to the men that sit on the wall: that they may eat their own dung and drink their urine with you?

Lamentations 4:4

Daleth. The tongue of the sucking child hath stuck to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the little ones have asked for bread, and there was none to break it unto them.