KJV King James Version
Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria:
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2 Kings 18:28
Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria:
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out loudly in Hebrew: “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria!
WEB World English Bible
Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and spoke, saying, “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria.
ASV American Standard Version
Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and spake, saying, Hear ye the word of the great king, the king of Assyria.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And the chief of the butlers standeth and calleth with a great voice in Jewish, and speaketh and saith, ‘Hear ye a word of the great king, the king of Asshur:
Surrounding context — 2 Kings 18
25 Am I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
26 Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand [it]: and talk not with us in the Jews’ language in the ears of the people that [are] on the wall.
27 But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? [hath he] not [sent me] to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
28 Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria:
29 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
30 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
31 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make [an agreement] with me by a present, and come out to me, and [then] eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern:
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וַֽיַּעֲמֹד֙H5975 · a.madto stand: standרַב־H7262 · rav.sha.qehRabshakehשָׁקֵ֔הH7262 · rav.sha.qehRabshakehוַיִּקְרָ֥אH7121 · qa.rato call: call toבְקוֹל־H6963 · qolvoiceגָּד֖וֹלH1419 · ga.dolgreat: largeיְהוּדִ֑יתH3066 · ye.hu.ditJudahiteוַיְדַבֵּ֣רH1696 · da.varto speak: speakוַיֹּ֔אמֶרH559 · a.marto sayשִׁמְע֛וּH8085 · sha.mato hear: hearדְּבַר־H1697 · da.varwordהַמֶּ֥לֶךְH4428 · me.lekhkingהַגָּד֖וֹלH1419 · ga.dolgreat: largeמֶ֥לֶךְH4428 · me.lekhkingאַשּֽׁוּר׃H804 · ash.shurAssyria
Cross-references
Isaiah 36:13-18Then 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.Ezekiel 29:3Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river [is] mine own, and I have made [it] for myself.Revelation 19:6And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.2 Chronicles 32:18Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ speech unto the people of Jerusalem that [were] on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.Psalm 47:2For the LORD most high [is] terrible; [he is] a great King over all the earth.2 Kings 18:19And Rabshakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence [is] this wherein thou trustest?Isaiah 10:8-13For he saith, [Are] not my princes altogether kings?Ezekiel 31:3-10Behold, the Assyrian [was] a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.Ezra 7:12Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, a scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect [peace], and at such a time.
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