2 Kings 18:27

New King James Version

But the Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat and drink their own waste with you?”

Cross References

Ezekiel 4:15

Then He said to me, “See, I am giving you cow dung instead of human waste, and you shall prepare your bread over it.”

Ezekiel 4:13

Then the Lord said, “So shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, where I will drive them.”

Lamentations 4:5

Those who ate delicacies Are desolate in the streets; Those who were brought up in scarlet Embrace ash heaps.

Psalm 73:8

They scoff and speak wickedly concerning oppression; They speak loftily.

2 Kings 6:25

And there was a great famine in Samaria; and indeed 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.

2 Kings 18:17

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

2 Kings 18:26

Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; and do not speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

2 Kings 18:28

Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out with a loud voice in Hebrew, and spoke, saying, “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria!

Isaiah 36:12

But the Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat and drink their own waste with you?”

Lamentations 4:4

The tongue of the infant clings To the roof of its mouth for thirst; The young children ask for bread, But no one breaks it for them.