John Gill's Exposition on 2 Chronicles 32:18

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ speech unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, etc.] The messengers of Sennacherib, particularly Rabshakeh the chief speaker; though they were desired to speak in the Syrian language, (<233611>Isaiah 36:11,13), but this they did to affright them, and to trouble them, that they might take the city; to throw them into terror and confusion, that they might prevail upon them to deliver up the city to them.

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