2 Kings 18:23-32

23Now then, 1come 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 2one 3official of the least of my master’s servants, and 4rely on Egypt for chariots and horsemen? 25Have I now come up without 5the 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 6understand it; and do not speak with us in 78Judean 9so that the people who are on the wall hear you.” 27But Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me only to your master and to you to speak these words? Has he not also sent me to the men who sit on the wall, doomed to eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”

28Then Rabshakeh stood up and shouted with a loud voice in Judean, 10saying, “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria! 29This is what the king says: ‘11Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to save you from 12my hand. 30And do not let Hezekiah lead you to trust in the Lord by saying, “The Lord will certainly save us, and this city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.” 31Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: “Make 13your peace with me and come out to me, and eat, 14each one, from his vine and each from his fig tree, and drink, each one, the waters of his own cistern, 32until I come and take you 15to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees producing oil, and of honey, so that you will live and not die.” But do not listen to Hezekiah, because he misleads you by saying, “The Lord will save us.”