Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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?
Bible References
Eat
2 Kings 6:25
And there was a great famine in Samaria; and behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was worth eighty silver-pieces, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung five silver-pieces.
Deuteronomy 28:53
And in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee, thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters whom Jehovah thy God hath given thee.
Psalm 73:8
They mock and speak wickedly of oppression, they speak loftily:
Lamentations 4:5
They that fed delicately are desolate in the streets; they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dung-hills.
Ezekiel 4:13
And Jehovah said, So shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean among the nations whither I will drive them.