랍사게 는
Assyria 제국에서 왕의 최 측근인 관직 이름이다.
성경에서는
Sennacherib 왕의 장군으로
Hezekiah (King of Judah) 의
Kingdom of Judah 을 침략하는데 등장한다.
The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to king Hezekiah with a large army. He stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool in the fuller’s field highway.
그는 예루살렘 성 앞에서 항복을 강요하며 모욕하는 말을 한다.
Rabshakeh said to them, “Now tell Hezekiah, ‘The great king, the king of Assyria , says, “What confidence is this in which you trust?
11 Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh , “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Don’t speak to us in the Jews’ language in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”
12 But Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me only to your master and to you, to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”
13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and called out with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and said, “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria !
이후, 선지자 이사야를 통해 하나님께서 구원하실 것이라는 선포가 이뤄지고, 하나님이 역사하셔서 앗수르의 군대의 많은 수가 죽임을 당하게 되고 물러나게 된다.