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But Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me to your master and to you, to speak these words? Hasn’t he sent me to the men who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own urine with you?”
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Verse 27. With you. Insolent bravado! whence some have inferred the probability of pigeons’ dung being really eaten. (Calmet. 6:25.) Calmet.—Rabsaces threatens them with all the horrors of famine, so that they shall eat such things, if they refuse to give up the city. Menochius.
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