2 Kings 18:27
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?””
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“But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“But Rab–shakeh 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, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?”
King James Version · Public Domain“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 to drink their own water with you?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And the chief of the butlers saith unto them, `For thy lord, and unto thee, hath my lord sent me to speak these words? is it not for the men, those sitting on the wall to eat their own dung and to drink their own water, with you?'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 2 Kings 18:27 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 28:53Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you.
- 2 Kings 6:25So there was a great famine in Samaria. Indeed, they besieged the city so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter cab of dove’s dung sold for five shekels of silver.
- Psalms 73:8They mock and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression.
- Lamentations 4:4The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.
- Lamentations 4:5Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.
- Ezekiel 4:13Then the LORD said, “This is how the Israelites will eat their defiled bread among the nations to which I will banish them.”
- Ezekiel 4:15“Look,” He replied, “I will let you use cow dung instead of human excrement, and you may bake your bread over that.”
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