2 Kings 18:37 meaning and explanation
Then Hilkiah’s son Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Asaph’s son Joah the recorder came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and they relayed to him the words of the Rabshakeh.
2 Kings 18:37, Berean Standard Bible
Explanation preview
These three senior officials had gone out to hear the Assyrian field commander's demands at the aqueduct. Now they return to King Hezekiah with their clothes torn, a customary sign of grief and alarm at words they judged blasphemous and catastrophic.
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