King James Version
2 Kings 18:28 in the King James Version says “Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great ki...” — study this verse from 2 Kings chapter 18 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“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:”
2 Kings 18:28 · KJV
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.
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? their own piss: Heb. the water of their feet
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:
Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
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.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“stood”
H5975to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
“and cried”
H7121to call out to (i.e., properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
“and spake”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
“Hear”
H8085to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
“the word”
H1697a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
“of Assyria”
H804ashshur, the second son of shem; also his descendants and the country occupied by them (i.e., assyria), its region and its empire
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