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
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2 Kings 6:25
There was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
Deuteronomy 28:53
You shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you.
Psalm 73:8
They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.
Lamentations 4:5
Those who ate delicacies are destitute in the streets. Those who were brought up in purple embrace ash heaps.
Ezekiel 4:13
The LORD said, "Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them."