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Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah quietly petition the Rabshakeh beneath the wall while Judahite onlookers remain above.
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2 Kings 18:26

A plea for Aramaic

Hezekiah and the Assyrian Challenge · 2 Kings 18

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26Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. And do not speak with us in Judean in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

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