열왕기하 18:26-28 KRV

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 18:27

But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall? An intolerable speech on the part of an envoy, and one which might have justified an order to send an arrow through his head. Ambassadors are accredited by governments to governments, and the safe conduct granted to them is on the understanding that they will conduct themselves according to established usage. In no state of society can... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 18:28

Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with aloud voice in the Jews' language, and spake, saying. Rabshakeh had probably been sitting before. He now stood up to attract attention, and raised his voice to be the better heard. Still speaking Hebrew, and not Aramaic, he addressed himself directly to the people on the wall, soldiers and others, doing the very opposite to what he had been requested to do, and outraging all propriety. History scarcely presents any other instance of such coarse and... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 18:26

The Syrian language - i. e., Aramaic; probably the dialect of Damascus, a Semitic language nearly akin to their own, but suffciently different to be unintelligible to ordinary JewsThe people that are on the wall - The conference must have been held immediately outside the wall for the words of the speakers to have been audible. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 18:27

That they may eat ... - “My master hath sent me,” the Rab-shakeh seems to say, “to these men, whom I see stationed on the wall to defend the place and bear the last extremities of a prolonged siege - these men on whom its worst evils will fall, and who have therefore the greatest interest in avoiding it by a timely surrender.” He expresses the evils by a strong coarse phrase, suited to the rude soldiery, and well calculated to rouse their feelings. The author of Chronicles has softened down the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 18:26

2 Kings 18:26. Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language It is probable Eliakim perceived the people to be terrified with his big words, and therefore requested him, in the name of the other commissioners sent to treat with him, to speak no longer in the Jews’ language, but in his own: for he was sent, not to treat with the people, but with them, who understood the Syrian tongue very well. In the ears of the people that are upon the wall Upon which these officers stood;... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 18:27-29

2 Kings 18:27-29. Hath he not sent me to the men, &c. To tell them to what extremity and misery he will force them. Then Rab-shakeh cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language That he might affright the people into a compliance with his proposal, which he perceived that Eliakim and his brethren endeavoured to prevent. Thus saith the king, &c. Here he proclaims again, with the greatest assurance, the power of his king, and the weakness of Hezekiah; representing from thence, how... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 18:13-37

Freed from Assyrian power (18:13-19:37)When news reached Hezekiah that the Assyrian army, under the new king Sennacherib, was heading for Jerusalem, he quickly prepared the defences of the city. He also cut off any water supply outside the city that might be of help to the besieging armies. Above all, he encouraged his troops to trust in God for victory (13; 2 Chronicles 32:1-8). But, on seeing the strength of the siege, Hezekiah began to repent of his rebellion and offered to pay whatever... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Kings 18:26

Syrian = Aramaic. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Kings 18:28

word = message. Some codices, with two early printed editions, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "words". read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Kings 18:26

AN INTERRUPTION REQUESTING A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE"Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not with us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall. But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit on the wall, to eat their own dung and drink their own... read more