2 Kings 18:25-27

Christian Standard Bible

²⁵ Now, have I attacked this place to destroy it without the Lord’s approval?^(A) The Lord said to me, ‘Attack this land and destroy it.’”

²⁶ Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, Shebnah, and Joah said to the royal spokesman, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic,^(B) since we understand it. Don’t speak with us in Hebrew^[a] within earshot of the people on the wall.”

²⁷ But the royal spokesman said to them, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to your master and to you? Hasn’t he also sent me to the men who sit on the wall, destined with you to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?” ^(C)