| Verse | Translation | Text |
| 2Ki 18:26 | Strong Concordance | Then said [0559] Eliakim [0471] the son [01121] of Hilkiah [02518], and Shebna [07644], and Joah [03098], unto Rabshakeh [07262], Speak [01696], I pray thee, to thy servants [05650] in the Syrian language [0762]; for we understand [08085] it: and talk [01696] not with us in the Jews' language [03066] in the ears [0241] of the people [05971] that are on the wall [02346]. |
| King James | Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews' language in the ears of the people that are on the wall. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| 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 Jews The 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. |