36:13 The chief adviser then stood there and called out loudly in the Judahite dialect, 1 “Listen to the message of the great king, the king of Assyria.
36:11 Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the chief adviser, “Speak to your servants in Aramaic, 2 for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Judahite dialect 3 in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”
1 tn The Hebrew text includes “and he said.”
2 sn Aramaic was the diplomatic language of the Assyrian empire.
3 tn Or “in Hebrew” (NIV, NCV, NLT); NAB, NASB “in Judean.”