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Selected Verse: 2 Kings 18:27 - Strong Concordance

Verse	Translation	Text
2Ki 18:27	Strong Concordance	But Rabshakeh [07262] said [0559] unto them, Hath my master [0113] sent [07971] me to thy master [0113], and to thee, to speak [01696] these words [01697]? hath he not sent me to the men [0582] which sit [03427] on the wall [02346], that they may eat [0398] their own dung [06675] [02755], and drink [08354] their own piss [04325] [07272] [07890] with you?
	King James	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, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
that they may eat, &c.--This was designed to show the dreadful extremities to which, in the threatened siege, the people of Jerusalem would be reduced.

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

that they may eat, &c.--This was designed to show the dreadful extremities to which, in the threatened siege, the people of Jerusalem would be reduced.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
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 words Ch2 32:11.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

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 words Ch2 32:11.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
To the men - To tell them to what extremities and miseries he will force them.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]

To the men - To tell them to what extremities and miseries he will force them.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
That they may eat their own dung - That they may be duly apprised, if they hold on Hezekiah's side, Jerusalem shall be most straitly besieged, and they be reduced to such a state of famine as to be obliged to eat their own excrements.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826

That they may eat their own dung - That they may be duly apprised, if they hold on Hezekiah's side, Jerusalem shall be most straitly besieged, and they be reduced to such a state of famine as to be obliged to eat their own excrements.

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