2 Kings 18:18-26

18Then they called to the king, and 1Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was in charge of the household, 2Shebnah the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the secretary, went out to them.

19And Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, ‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria says: “3What is this confidence that you 4have? 20You say--but they are only 5empty words-I have a plan and strength for the war.’ Now on whom have you relied, 6that you have revolted against me? 21Now behold, you have 78relied on the 9support of this broken reed, on Egypt; on which if a man leans, it will go into his 10hand and pierce it. That is how Pharaoh king of Egypt is to all who rely on him. 22However, if you say to me, ‘We have trusted in the Lord our God,’ is it not He whose high places and 11whose altars Hezekiah has removed, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem’? 23Now then, 12come make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to put riders on them! 24How then can you drive back even 13one 14official of the least of my master’s servants, and 15rely on Egypt for chariots and horsemen? 25Have I now come up without 16the 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, Shebnah, and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, “Speak now to your servants in Aramaic, because we 17understand it; and do not speak with us in 1819Judean 20so that the people who are on the wall hear you.”