Isaiah 36:12 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 36:12

But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”

BSB

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ASV

But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own water with you?

KJV

But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?

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Commentary

3 voices

Thomas Aquinas

Commentary on Isaiah (1274)

Third, Rabsaces's mockery of their response is set out: and Rabsaces said to them; urine of their feet, which flowed at their feet: they that were brought up in scarlet have embraced the dung (Lam 4:5).

The record, by era

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

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

That they may eat their own dung “Destined to eat their own dung” - לאכל leechol, that they may eat, as our translation literally renders it. But the Syriac reads מאכל meechol, that they may not eat, perhaps rightly, and afterward ומשתות umishshethoth, or ושתות ushethoth, to the same purpose. Seventeen of Dr. Kennicott’s MSS., ten of De Rossi’s and two of my own, read מימי meymey, the water; mine have מימי שניהם meymey sheneyhem, and write in the margin מימי רגליהם meymey regaleyhem, the water of their feet, a modest way of expressing urine.

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Original language & word study

25 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
רַב־	rav-	[the] chief	H7262 →
שָׁקֵ֗ה	sha.Keh	commander	H7262 →
הַאֶ֨ל	ha.'El	¿ to	H413 →
אֲדֹנֶ֤יךָ	'a.do.Nei.kha	master<s> your	H113 →
וְאֵלֶ֙יךָ֙	ve.'e.Lei.kha	and to you	H413 →
שְׁלָחַ֣נִי	she.la.Cha.ni	has he sent me	H7971 →
אֲדֹנִ֔י	'a.do.Ni	master my	H113 →
לְדַבֵּ֖ר	le.da.Ber	to speak	H1696 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הַדְּבָרִ֣ים	ha.de.va.Rim	the words	H1697 →
הָאֵ֑לֶּה	ha.'E.leh	<the> these	H428 →
הֲלֹ֣א	ha.Lo'	¿ not	H3808 →
עַל־	'al-	to	H5921 →
הָאֲנָשִׁ֗ים	ha.'a.na.Shim	the people	H582 →
הַיֹּֽשְׁבִים֙	hai.yo.she.Vim	who sit	H3427 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
הַ֣חוֹמָ֔ה	ha.cho.Mah	the city wall	H2346 →
לֶאֱכֹ֣ל	le.'e.Khol	to eat	H398 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
צוֹאָתָ֗ם	char.'ei.hem	own excrement their	H6675 →
וְלִשְׁתּ֛וֹת	ve.lish.Tot	and to drink	H8354 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
מֵימֵ֥י רַגְלֵיהֶ֖ם	mei.mei rag.lei.hem	[the] water of feet their	H4325 →H7272 →
עִמָּכֶֽם׃	'i.ma.Khem	with you	H5973 →

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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Where the connections lead

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
Jeremiah 19:9
I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’
leads to
- Deuteronomy 28:53–57
  Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict…
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Lamentations 4:10
  The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Ezekiel 5:10
  As a result, fathers among you will eat their sons, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.’
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Isaiah 9:20
  They carve out what is on the right, but they are still hungry; they eat what is on the left, but they are still not satisfied. Each one devours the flesh of his own…
- Leviticus 26:29
  You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.
Through
Ezekiel 4:16
Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water…
leads to
- Ezekiel 5:16
  When I shower you with the deadly arrows of famine and destruction that I will send to destroy you, I will intensify the famine against you and cut off your supply of food.
- Isaiah 3:1
  For behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: the whole supply of food and water,
- Leviticus 26:26
  When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

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About Isaiah