2 Kings 18:28

18:28 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.

2 Kings 18:26

18:26 Eliakim son of Hilkiah, 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.”

[18:28]  ¹ tn The Hebrew text also has, “and he spoke and said.”

[18:26]  ² sn Aramaic was the diplomatic language of the empire.

[18:26]  ³ tn Or “Hebrew.”