select the best and most capable of your master’s sons, and set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s [royal] house.”

But the Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me only to your master and to you to say these things? Has he not sent me to the men who sit on the wall, [who are doomed by the siege] to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine along with you?”