# 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 hearing of the people on the wall.”

— 2 Kings 18:26, Berean Standard Bible

## When

- 701 BC (dated by the text itself)
- Date source: 2 Kings 18:13 dates itself by the fourteenth year of Hezekiah; the Sennacherib Prism dates the same campaign to 701 BC and names Hezekiah.

## Who ruled

- **Sennacherib**, king of Assyria, 705-681 BC · Source: Taylor Prism (British Museum), in which he tells of besieging Jerusalem and names "Hezekiah, the Jew," but does not say he took the city
- **Hezekiah**, king of Judah, 715-686 BC · Source: 2 Kings 18-20; the Sennacherib Prism, which names him; the Siloam tunnel and the inscription found in it, which record the work of 2 Kings 20:20

## See also

- Ezra 4:7 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/ezra/4/7
- Daniel 2:4 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/daniel/2/4

Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0.

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-kings/18/26
- Whole chapter: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-kings/18
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