Isaiah 36:11

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


sn Aramaic was the diplomatic language of the Assyrian empire.

tn Or “in Hebrew” (NIV, NCV, NLT); NAB, NASB “in Judean.”