He wrote also letters to rail on the Lord God of Israel,.... See Kg2 19:9. . 2 Chronicles 32:18 ch2 32:18 ch2 32:18 ch2 32:18Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall,.... The messengers of Sennacherib, particularly Rabshakeh the chief speaker; though they were desired to speak in the Syrian language, Isa 36:11, but this they did to affright them, and to trouble them, that they might take the city; to throw them into terror and confusion, that they might prevail upon them to deliver up the city to them.