BRAGADAYJAH 1113
The King pf Assyria’s servants challenge King Hezekiah
Now hearing the words of Rabshakeh the servant of the king of Assyria,
Eliakim the son of Hilkiah the servant of king Hezekiah, replied and told him
to speak to them not in the Jewish language in the presence of the people, but
rather in the Assyrian language; for they understood it. But Rabshakeh asked
him if he though his master the king of Assyria sent him to the king and his
servants, and not to the very people gathered around, that they may eat their
own dung and drink their own piss together? Then Rabshakeh stood and in a loud
voice, in the Jewish language said, “Hear the words of the great king, the king
of Assyria, Let not Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver
you out of his hands. Neither let him deceive you by saying to you trust in the
Lord; and tell you that the Lord shall surely deliver you; and that this city shall
surely not be delivered into the hands of the king of Assyria. Listen not to Hezekiah;
for thus saith the king of Assyria. Make an agreement with me and come out with
me, and then eat every man of his own fig tree, and drink every man of his own
wine, and drink of his own cistern.
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