2 Kings 19:28

19:28 Because you rage against me,

and the uproar you create has reached my ears; ¹ 

I will put my hook in your nose, ² 

and my bridle between your lips,

and I will lead you back the way

you came.”

2 Kings 18:26

18:26 Eliakim son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah said to the chief adviser, “Speak to your servants in Aramaic, ³  for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Judahite dialect ⁴  in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

[19:28]  ¹ tc Heb “and your complacency comes up into my ears.” The parallelism is improved if שַׁאֲנַנְךְ (sha’anankh), “your complacency,” is emended to שַׁאֲוַנְךְ (sha’avankh), “your uproar.” See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 237-38.

[19:28]  ² sn The word picture has a parallel in Assyrian sculpture. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 238.

[18:26]  ³ sn Aramaic was the diplomatic language of the empire.

[18:26]  ⁴ tn Or “Hebrew.”