Isaiah 36:11 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 36:11

Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”

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ASV

Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto 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.

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Commentary

3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language - Hebrew, ארמית 'ărâmı̂yt - ‘Aramean.’ Aram, or Aramea, properly meaning a high region, or the highlands, was of wider extent than Syria Proper, and comprehended not only Syria, but Mesopotamia. It usually denotes however, Syria Proper, of which the capital was Damascus. The language of all this country was probably the same - the Syrian or Aramean, a language of the same family as the Hebrew, and having a strong resemblance to that and to the Chaldee.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

The history related here, and in the three following chapters, is, almost in the same words contained 2 Kings 18, 19, 20. It is inserted here, to explain and confirm some of the foregoing predictions.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

"Aram" means a "high land," and includes parts of Assyria as well as Syria. Jews' language--The men of Judah since the disruption of Israel, claimed the Hebrew as their own peculiarly, as if they were now the only true representatives of the whole Hebrew twelve tribes. ears of . . . people on . . . wall--The interview is within hearing distance of the city.

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Original language & word study

24 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
אֶלְיָקִים֩	'el.ya.Kim	Eliakim	H471 →
וְשֶׁבְנָ֨א	ve.shev.Na'	and Shebna	H7644 →
וְיוֹאָ֜ח	ve.yo.'Ach	and Joah	H3098 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
רַב־	rav-	[the] chief	H7262 →
שָׁקֵ֗ה	sha.Keh	commander	H7262 →
דַּבֶּר־	da.ber-	speak	H1696 →
נָ֤א	na'	please	H4994 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
עֲבָדֶ֙יךָ֙	'a.va.Dei.kha	servants your	H5650 →
אֲרָמִ֔ית	'a.ra.Mit	Aramaic	H762 →
כִּ֥י	ki	for	H3588 →
שֹׁמְעִ֖ים	sho.me.'Im	[are] understanding	H8085 →
אֲנָ֑חְנוּ	'a.Na.che.nu	we	H587 →
וְאַל־	ve.'al-	and may not	H408 →
תְּדַבֵּ֤ר	te.da.Ber	you speak	H1696 →
אֵלֵ֙ינוּ֙	'e.Lei.nu	to us	H413 →
יְהוּדִ֔ית	ye.hu.Dit	[in] Judean	H3066 →
בְּאָזְנֵ֣י	be.'a.ze.Nei	in [the] ears of	H241 →
הָעָ֔ם	ha.'Am	the people	H5971 →
אֲשֶׁ֖ר	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
עַל־	'al-	[is] on	H5921 →
הַחוֹמָֽה׃	ha.cho.Mah	the city wall	H2346 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Ezra 4:7
And in the days of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his associates wrote a letter to Artaxerxes. It was written in Aramaic and then translated.
leads to
- 2 Kings 18:26
  Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, along with Shebnah and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak with us in Hebrew in the…
- Daniel 2:4
  Then the astrologers answered the king in Aramaic, “O king, may you live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will give the interpretation.”
- Ezra 4:9
  From Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their associates—the judges and officials over Tripolis, Persia, Erech and Babylon, the Elamites of Susa,
- Ezra 4:17
  Then the king sent this reply: To Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of your associates living in Samaria and elsewhere in the region west of the Euphrates: Greetings.
- Ezra 5:6
  This is the text of the letter that Tattenai the governor of the region west of the Euphrates, Shethar-bozenai, and their associates, the officials in the region, sent to King Darius.
Through
Daniel 2:4
Then the astrologers answered the king in Aramaic, “O king, may you live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will give the interpretation.”
leads to
- Ezra 4:7
  And in the days of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his associates wrote a letter to Artaxerxes. It was written in Aramaic and then translated.
- Daniel 3:9
  saying to King Nebuchadnezzar, “O king, may you live forever!
- Daniel 5:10
  Hearing the outcry of the king and his nobles, the queen entered the banquet hall. “O king, may you live forever!” she said. “Do not let your thoughts terrify you, or your face grow…

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