Isaiah 36:11

36:11 Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the chief adviser, “Speak to your servants in Aramaic, ¹  for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Judahite dialect ²  in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

Isaiah 36:13

36:13 The chief adviser then stood there and called out loudly in the Judahite dialect, ³  “Listen to the message of the great king, the king of Assyria.

[36:11]  ¹ sn Aramaic was the diplomatic language of the Assyrian empire.

[36:11]  ² tn Or “in Hebrew” (NIV, NCV, NLT); NAB, NASB “in Judean.”

[36:13]  ³ tn The Hebrew text includes “and he said.”