2 Kings 18:26-28

Names of God Bible

²⁶ Then Eliakim (son of Hilkiah), Shebnah, and Joah said to the field commander, “Speak to us in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don’t speak to us in the Judean language as long as there are people on the wall listening.”

²⁷ But the field commander asked them, “Did my master send me to tell these things only to you and your master? Didn’t he send me to the men sitting on the wall who will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine with you?”

²⁸ Then the field commander stood and shouted loudly in the Judean language, “Listen to the great king, the king of Assyria.