But Sennacherib’s chief of staff replied, “Do you think my master sent this message only to you and your master? He wants all the people to hear it, for when we put this city under siege, they will suffer along with you. They will be so hungry and thirsty that they will eat their own dung and drink their own urine.”
Commentaries
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Has my master sent me to your master and to you? - To Hezekiah, and to you alone. A part of my purpose is to address the people, to induce t…
Charles Ellicott
CharlesEllicott
Hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall ...? —The words, which in their brutal coarseness have hardly a par…
John Calvin
JohnCalvin
And Rabshakeh said. From this we see the fierceness and insolence of the enemy, and from this it is also evident that Hezekiah’s …
John Gill
JohnGill
But Rabshakeh said, has my master sent me to your master, and
to you, to speak these words…
Thomas Aquinas
ThomasAquinas
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And it came to pass in the fourteenth year. Here the author recounts, as a historical account, the destruction of the A…
Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes