11 Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah(A) said to the field commander, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic,(B) since we understand it. Don’t speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”

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11 Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; and do not speak to us in [a]Hebrew in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

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  1. Isaiah 36:11 Lit. Judean

11 Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants (A)in Aramaic, for we understand it. Do not speak to us in the language of Judah within the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

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11 Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in (A)Aramaic, for we [a]understand it; and do not speak to us in [b](B)Judean [c]so that the people who are on the wall hear you.”

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  1. Isaiah 36:11 Lit hear
  2. Isaiah 36:11 I.e., Hebrew
  3. Isaiah 36:11 Lit in the ears of...wall

11 Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.

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