In Context

26 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, |Please speak to your servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it. Don't speak with us in the Jews' language, in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.|

27 But Rabshakeh said to them, |Has my master sent me to your master, and to you, to speak these words? Hasn't he sent me to the men who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own water with you?|

28 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spoke, saying, |Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria.

29 Thus says the king, 'Don't let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you out of his hand.

30 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, |Yahweh will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.|

31 Don't listen to Hezekiah.' For thus says the king of Assyria, 'Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and everyone of you eat of his vine, and everyone of his fig tree, and everyone drink the waters of his own cistern;

2 Kings 18:29 in Other Translations