Isaiah 36:11KJV
Protestant Bible · KJV · Verse 11 of 22
"Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand : and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that on the wall."
In context
9How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
10And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
11Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand : and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that on the wall.
12But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? not to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
13Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.