Then he sent messengers to the city to Ahab, king of Israel, and said to him,“ This is what Ben hadad says:

又差遣使者进城见以色列王亚哈，对他说：“便哈达如此说：

他派使者进城到以色列王亚哈那里，对他说：“便‧哈达如此说：

他派使者进城到以色列王亚哈那里，对他说：“便‧哈达如此说：

他派遣使者进城对以色列王亚哈说：

他派遣一些使者进城去见以色列王亚哈，对他说：“便．哈达这样说：

又差遣使者進城見以色列王亞哈，對他說：「便‧哈達如此說：

他派使者進城到以色列王亞哈那裏，對他說：「便‧哈达如此說：

他派使者進城到以色列王亞哈那裏，對他說：「便‧哈達如此說：

他派遣使者進城對以色列王亞哈說：

他派遣一些使者進城去見以色列王亞哈，對他說：“便．哈達這樣說：

他差遣使者進城來見以色列王亞哈，

遣使入城、見以色列王亞哈曰、便哈達云、

遣使入城、見以色列王亞哈、曰、便哈達云、

遣使者入城、見以色列王亞哈、

He sent messengers into the city to Ahab king of Israel, saying,“ This is what Ben-Hadad says:

Ben- Hadad sent messengers into the city. They spoke to Ahab, the king of Israel. They told him,“ Ben- Hadad says,

And he sent messengers into the city to Ahab king of Israel and said to him,“ Thus says Ben-hadad:

Ben hadad sent messengers into the city to relay this message to King Ahab of Israel:“ This is what Ben hadad says:

He sent messengers into the city to King Ahab of Israel and said to him,“ This is what Ben-hadad says:

Then he sent messengers into the city to Ahab king of Israel, and said to him,“ Thus says Ben-Hadad:

And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel, into the city, and said unto him, Thus saith Ben- hadad,

He sent messengers into the city to Ahab king of Israel and said to him,“ This is what Ben-hadad says:

And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, and said unto him, Thus saith Benhadad,

He sent messengers to King Ahab of Israel, who was in the city.

He sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel, into the city, and said to him,“ Ben Hadad says,

When he heard them say about Tirhakah king of Cush,“ Behold, he has come out to fight you,” he sent messengers again to Hezekiah, saying,

And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah with a large army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool on the road to the fuller’s field.Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the secretary, went out to him.And Rabshakeh said to them,“ Say now to Hezekiah,‘ This is what the great king, the king of Assyria says:“ What is this confidence that you have?I say,‘ Your plan and strength for the war are only empty words.’ Now on whom have you relied, that you have revolted against me?Behold, you have relied on the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt, on which if a man leans, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who rely on him.But if you say to me,‘ We trust in the Lord our God,’ is it not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem,‘ You shall worship before this altar’?Now then, come make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to put riders on them!How then can you drive back even one official of the least of my master’s servants and rely on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?And have I now come up without the Lord’s approval against this land to destroy it? The Lord said to me,‘ Go up against this land and destroy it.’ ” ’ ”Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to Rabshakeh,“ Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; and do not speak to us in Judean so that the people who are on the wall hear you.”But Rabshakeh said,“ Has my master sent me only to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, doomed to eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”Then Rabshakeh stood and called out with a loud voice in Judean and said,“ Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!This is what the king says:‘ Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to save you;and do not let Hezekiah lead you to rely on the Lord, saying,“ The Lord will certainly save us. This city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria!”Do not listen to Hezekiah,’ for this is what the king of Assyria says:‘ Surrender to me and come out to me, and eat, each one, of his vine and each of his fig tree, and each drink of the waters of his own cistern,until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.Beware that Hezekiah does not mislead you, saying,“ The Lord will save us.” Has any one of the gods of the nations saved his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? And when have they saved Samaria from my hand?Who among all the gods of these lands have saved their land from my hand, that the Lord would save Jerusalem from my hand?’ ”But they were silent and did not answer him so much as a word; for the king’s command was,“ Do not answer him.”Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the secretary, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and reported to him the words of Rabshakeh.

Now he heard them say regarding Tirhakah king of Cush,“ He has come out to fight against you,” and when he heard it he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,“ This is what you shall say to Hezekiah king of Judah:‘ Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you by saying,“ Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.”