2 Kings 18:27

New American Bible - revised edition

But the commander replied: “Was it to your lord and to you that my lord sent me to speak these words? Was it not rather to those sitting on the wall, who, with you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their urine?”

Cross References

2 Kings 18:17

The king of Assyria sent the general, the lord chamberlain, and the commander from Lachish with a great army to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem, to the conduit of the upper pool on the highway of the fuller’s field, where they took their stand.

2 Kings 18:26

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

2 Kings 18:28

Then the commander stepped forward and cried out in a loud voice in the language of Judah, “Listen to the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.

2 Kings 6:25

Because of the siege the famine in Samaria was so severe that a donkey’s head sold for eighty pieces of silver, and a fourth of a kab of “dove droppings” for five pieces of silver.

Psalm 73:8

They scoff and spout their malice; from on high they utter threats.

Isaiah 36:12

But the commander replied, “Was it to your lord and to you that my lord sent me to speak these words? Was it not rather to those sitting on the wall, who, with you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?”

Lamentations 4:4

The tongue of the infant cleaves to the roof of its mouth in thirst; Children beg for bread, but no one gives them a piece.

Lamentations 4:5

Those who feasted on delicacies are abandoned in the streets; Those who reclined on crimson now embrace dung heaps.

Ezekiel 4:13

The Lord said: Thus the Israelites shall eat their food, unclean, among the nations where I drive them.

Ezekiel 4:15

Very well, he replied, I will let you use cow manure in place of human dung. You can bake your bread on that.