Speak: Perceiving that the object of this blasphemous caitiff was to stir up the people to sedition, they mildly and reasonably required him to make his proposals in the Syrian language.
in the Syrian language: Ezra 4:7; Isaiah 36:11-12; Daniel 2:4
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2 Kings 18:26
2 Kings 18:26
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