2 Kings 18:28

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Summary

Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria:

Rab-shakeh

2 Chronicles 32:18

Isaiah 36:13

The king of assyria

Revelation 19:6

Bible References

Rab-shakeh

Then they called out loudly in Hebrew to the people of Jerusalem, who were on the wall, to frighten and discourage them in order that he might capture the city.

Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out loudly in Hebrew:

Listen to the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!

The king of assyria

Then the Rabshakeh said to them, “Tell Hezekiah this is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: ‘What are you relying on?

Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, an expert in the law of the God of heaven:

Greetings.

For Yahweh, the Most High, is awe-inspiring,
a great King over all the earth.

For he says,
“Aren’t all my commanders kings?

Speak to him and say: This is what the Lord God says:

Look, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt,
the great monster

lying in the middle of his Nile,

who says, ‘My Nile is my own;
I made it for myself.’

Think of Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon,
with beautiful branches and shady foliage
and of lofty height.
Its top was among the clouds.

Then I heard something like the voice of a vast multitude, like the sound of cascading waters, and like the rumbling of loud thunder, saying:

Hallelujah, because our Lord God, the Almighty,
has begun to reign!