2 Kings 18:27

English Standard Version 2016

But the Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are doomed with you to eat their own dung and to drink their own urine?”

Cross References

Ezekiel 4:15

Then he said to me, “See, I assign to you cow’s dung instead of human dung, on which you may prepare your bread.”

Ezekiel 4:13

And the Lord said, “Thus shall the people of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.”

Lamentations 4:5

Those who once feasted on delicacies perish in the streets; those who were brought up in purple embrace ash heaps.

Psalm 73:8

They scoff and speak with malice; loftily they threaten oppression.

2 Kings 6:25

And there was a great famine in Samaria, as they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver.

2 Kings 18:17

And the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rab-saris, and the Rabshakeh with a great army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. When they arrived, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway to the Washer’s Field.

2 Kings 18:26

Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Do not speak to us in the language of Judah within the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

2 Kings 18:28

Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out in a loud voice in the language of Judah: “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria!

Isaiah 36:12

But the Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are doomed with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”

Lamentations 4:4

The tongue of the nursing infant sticks to the roof of its mouth for thirst; the children beg for food, but no one gives to them.