36:11 Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah to Rabshakeh, {k} Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand [it]: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that [are] on the wall.
(k) They were afraid, lest by his words, he should have stirred up the people against the king, and also pretended to grow to some appointment with him.
36:1-22:See 2Ki 18:17-37, and the commentary thereon.
