24. How could you even defeat our lowest ranking officer, when you have to depend on Egypt for chariots and cavalry?
25. Don't forget that it was the Lord who sent me here with orders to destroy your nation!
26. Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said, “Sir, we don't want the people listening from the city wall to understand what you are saying. So please speak to us in Aramaic instead of Hebrew.”
27. The Assyrian army commander answered, “My king sent me to speak to everyone, not just to you leaders. These people will soon have to eat their own body waste and drink their own urine! And so will the three of you.”
28. Then, in a voice loud enough for everyone to hear, he shouted in Hebrew:Listen to what the great king of Assyria says!