2 Kings 18:27

Modern English Version

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 about to eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”

Cross References

2 Kings 18:17

Then the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah with a great army against Jerusalem. So they went up and came to Jerusalem. When they went up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway of the Fuller’s Field.

2 Kings 18:26

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

2 Kings 18:28

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

2 Kings 6:25

There was a great famine in Samaria, and they besieged it until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and one-fourth of a kab of dove droppings for five shekels of silver.

Psalm 73:8

They mock and wickedly speak of oppression; they speak loftily.

Isaiah 36:12

But the Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me only to your master and to you to speak these words? Has he not sent me to the men who sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”

Lamentations 4:4

The tongue of the infant cleaves to the roof of his mouth for thirst; the children beg for bread, but no one divides it for them.

Lamentations 4:5

Those who once ate delicacies are desolate in the streets; those who were brought up in scarlet embrace ash heaps.

Ezekiel 4:13

Then the Lord said, “Even so the Israelites shall eat their defiled bread among the nations where I drive them.”

Ezekiel 4:15

Then He said to me, “I have given you cow dung instead of man’s dung over which you shall prepare your bread.”