2 Kings 18:23-32

23Now therefore, 1come, make a bargain with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them. 24How then can you 2repulse one 3official of the least of my master’s servants, and 4rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? 25Have I now come up 5without the Lord’s approval against this place to destroy it? The Lord said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”’”

26Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, “Speak now to your servants in Aramaic, for we 6understand it; and do not speak with us in 78Judean in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.” 27But Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me only to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, doomed to eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”

28Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in Judean, 9saying, “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria. 29Thus says the king, ‘10Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you from 11my hand; 30nor let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, “The Lord will surely deliver us, and this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.” 31Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria, “12Make your peace with me and come out to me, and eat 13each of his vine and each of his fig tree and drink each of the waters of his own cistern, 32until I come and take you away 14to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey, that you may live and not die.” But do not listen to Hezekiah when he misleads you, saying, “The Lord will deliver us.”