2 Kings 18:27

God's Word

But the field commander asked them, “Did my master send me to tell these things only to you and your master? Didn’t he send me to the men sitting on the wall who will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine with you?”

Cross References

2 Kings 18:17

Then the king of Assyria sent his commander-in-chief, his quartermaster, and his field commander with a large army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They came there and stood at the channel for the Upper Pool on the road to the Laundryman’s Field.

2 Kings 18:26

Then Eliakim (son of Hilkiah), Shebnah, and Joah said to the field commander, “Speak to us in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don’t speak to us in the Judean language as long as there are people on the wall listening.”

2 Kings 18:28

Then the field commander stood and shouted loudly in the Judean language, “Listen to the great king, the king of Assyria.

2 Kings 6:25

The shortages caused by the blockade of Samaria became so severe that a donkey’s head sold for two pounds of silver and a half-pint of dove  manure for two ounces of silver.

Psalm 73:8

They ridicule. They speak maliciously. They speak arrogantly about oppression.

Isaiah 36:12

But the field commander asked, “Did my master send me to tell these things only to you and your master? Didn’t he send me to the men sitting on the wall who will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine with you?”

Lamentations 4:4

The tongues of nursing infants stick to the roofs of their mouths because of their thirst. Little children beg for bread, but no one will break off a piece for them.

Lamentations 4:5

Those who used to eat delicacies are now destitute in the streets. Those who used to wear expensive clothes now pick through piles of garbage.

Ezekiel 4:13

Then the Lord said, “In the same way, the people of Israel will eat unclean  bread among the nations where I scatter them.”

Ezekiel 4:15

He said to me, “I will let you use cow manure in place of human excrement. Bake your bread over it.”