8. I will make a bargain with you in the name of the emperor. I will give you 2,000 horses if you can find that many riders.
9. You are no match for even the lowest ranking Assyrian official, and yet you expect the Egyptians to send you chariots and cavalry.
10. Do you think I have attacked your country and destroyed it without the Lord's help? The Lord himself told me to attack it and destroy it.”
11. Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the official, “Speak Aramaic to us. We understand it. Don't speak Hebrew; all the people on the wall are listening.”