This is the name of Rabshakeh: A Babylonian official who taunted Hezekiah and Jerusalem's people.
Definition
from H7227 and H8248; chief butler; Rabshakeh, a Babylonian official
Traditional renderings: Rabshakeh.
Traditional renderings: Rabshakeh.
Glossary entries
Where it occurs
Occurrences
32 total
- 2 Kings 18:17 (2×)רַב־; שָׁקֵ֨ה · and the RabshakehNevertheless, the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh, along with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They advanced up to Jerusalem and stationed themselves by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field.
- 2 Kings 18:19 (2×)רַב־; שָׁקֵ֔ה · The RabshakehThe Rabshakeh said to them, “Tell Hezekiah that this is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: What is the basis of this confidence of yours?
- 2 Kings 18:26 (2×)רַב־; שָׁקֵ֗ה · the RabshakehThen Eliakim son of Hilkiah, along with Shebnah and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak with us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
- 2 Kings 18:27 (2×)רַב־; שָׁקֵ֗ה · But the RabshakehBut the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”
- 2 Kings 18:28 (2×)רַב־; שָׁקֵ֔ה · Then the RabshakehThen the Rabshakeh stood and called out loudly in Hebrew: “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria!
- 2 Kings 18:37 (2×)רַב־; שָׁקֵֽה׃ · of [the] RabshakehThen Hilkiah’s son Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Asaph’s son Joah the recorder came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and they relayed to him the words of the Rabshakeh.
- 2 Kings 19:4 (2×)רַב־; שָׁקֵ֗ה · of the RabshakehPerhaps the LORD your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives.”
- 2 Kings 19:8 (2×)רַב־; שָׁקֵ֔ה · the RabshakehWhen the Rabshakeh heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.
- Isaiah 36:2 (2×)רַב־; שָׁקֵ֨ה · [the] RabshakehAnd the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh, with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And he stopped by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field.
- Isaiah 36:4 (2×)רַב־; שָׁקֵ֔ה · The RabshakehThe Rabshakeh said to them, “Tell Hezekiah that this is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: What is the basis of this confidence of yours?
- Isaiah 36:11 (2×)רַב־; שָׁקֵ֗ה · the RabshakehThen Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
- Isaiah 36:12 (2×)רַב־; שָׁקֵ֗ה · But the RabshakehBut the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”
- Isaiah 36:13 (2×)רַב־; שָׁקֵ֔ה · Then the RabshakehThen the Rabshakeh stood and called out loudly in Hebrew: “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!
- Isaiah 36:22 (2×)רַב־; שָׁקֵֽה׃ס · of [the] RabshakehThen Hilkiah’s son Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Asaph’s son Joah the recorder came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and they relayed to him the words of the Rabshakeh.
- Isaiah 37:4 (2×)רַב־; שָׁקֵ֗ה · of the RabshakehPerhaps the LORD your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives.”
- Isaiah 37:8 (2×)רַב־; שָׁקֵ֔ה · the RabshakehWhen the Rabshakeh heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.