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Rab-shakeh (rabshakeh)


(A title of an Assyrian officer)

Sent by Sennacherib against Jerusalem; undertakes to cause disloyalty to Hezekiah and the surrender of Jerusalem by a speech in the Jews' native language—2Ki 18:17-36; 19:4,8; Isa 36; 37