2 Kings 18:27

New Century Version

“No,” the commander said, “my master did not send me to tell these things only to you and your king. He sent me to speak also to those people sitting on the wall who will have to eat their own dung and drink their own urine like you.”

Cross References

2 Kings 18:17

The king of Assyria sent out his supreme commander, his chief officer, and his field commander. They went with a large army from Lachish to King Hezekiah in Jerusalem. When they came near the waterway from the upper pool on the road where people do their laundry, they stopped.

2 Kings 18:26

Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah said to the field commander, “Please speak to us in the Aramaic language. We understand it. Don’t speak to us in Hebrew, because the people on the city wall can hear you.”

2 Kings 18:28

Then the commander stood and shouted loudly in the Hebrew language, “Listen to what the great king, the king of Assyria, says!

2 Kings 6:25

There was a shortage of food in Samaria. It was so bad that a donkey’s head sold for about two pounds of silver, and half of a pint of dove’s dung sold for about two ounces of silver.

Psalm 73:8

They make fun of others and speak evil; proudly they speak of hurting others.

Isaiah 36:12

But the commander said, “My master did not send me to tell these things only to you and your king. He sent me to speak also to those people sitting on the wall who will have to eat their own dung and drink their own urine like you.”

Lamentations 4:4

The babies are so thirsty their tongues stick to the roofs of their mouths. Children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.

Lamentations 4:5

Those who once ate fine foods are now starving in the streets. People who grew up wearing nice clothes now pick through trash piles.

Ezekiel 4:13

Then the Lord said, “In the same way Israel will eat unclean food among the nations where I force them to go.”

Ezekiel 4:15

“Very well,” he said. “Then I will give you cow’s dung instead of human dung to use for your fire to bake your bread.”