2 Kings 18:26 meaning and explanation
Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, along with Shebnah and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak with us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
2 Kings 18:26, Berean Standard Bible
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The Assyrian field commander, the Rabshakeh, has been shouting terms of surrender in Hebrew at the walls of Jerusalem, where the people could hear. Eliakim, Shebnah and Joah, Hezekiah's officials, ask him to switch to Aramaic, the language of diplomacy, so the ordinary citizens on the wall will not understand.
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