Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah to Rabshakeh, (k) Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand [it]: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that [are] on the wall.
(k) They were afraid, lest by his words, he should have stirred up the people against the king, and also pretended to grow to some appointment with him.