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

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  1. Isaiah 36:11 sn Aramaic was the diplomatic language of the Assyrian empire.
  2. Isaiah 36:11 tn Or “in Hebrew” (NIV, NCV, NLT); NAB, NASB “in Judean.”