2 Kings 18:27

New International Version

But the commander replied, “Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the people sitting on the wall—who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?”

Cross References

2 Kings 18:17

The king of Assyria sent his supreme commander, his chief officer and his field commander with a large army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They came up to Jerusalem and stopped at the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Washerman’s Field.

2 Kings 18:26

Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, and Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don’t speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”

2 Kings 18:28

Then the commander stood and called out in Hebrew, “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria!

2 Kings 6:25

There was a great famine in the city; the siege lasted so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter of a cab of seed pods for five shekels.

Psalm 73:8

They scoff, and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression.

Isaiah 36:12

But the commander replied, “Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the people sitting on the wall—who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?”

Lamentations 4:4

Because of thirst the infant’s tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth; the children beg for bread, but no one gives it to them.

Lamentations 4:5

Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets. Those brought up in royal purple now lie on ash heaps.

Ezekiel 4:13

The Lord said, “In this way the people of Israel will eat defiled food among the nations where I will drive them.”

Ezekiel 4:15

“Very well,” he said, “I will let you bake your bread over cow dung instead of human excrement.”