Isaiah 36:12
But the chief commander said, “Has my master sent me to your master and to you to speak these words? Has he not sent me to the men who sit on the wall, who will have to eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”
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Leviticus 26:29You will eat the flesh of your sons; you will eat the flesh of your daughters.
2 Kings 6:25So there was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it until a donkey's head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
Isaiah 9:20They will grab food on the right hand but still be hungry; they will eat food on the left hand but will not be satisfied. 1 Each will even eat the flesh of his own arm. + 9:20 Instead of the flesh of his own arm , some versions have the flesh of his own children . 1
Lamentations 4:9Those who have been killed by the sword were happier than those killed by hunger, 1 who wasted away, pierced by the lack of any harvest from the field. 1
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 36:12-22
Sennacherib's Insolent Message. ( b. c. 710.) 11 Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall. 12 But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you? 13 Then Rabshakeh… Read the whole commentary →