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• At this time, as we have seen, the Jews, the Israelites, did not generally speak Aramaic, and except for a select, educated, few, the common people did not understand the Aramaic language of the invading Assyrians.
• But, as we shall see in the next lesson, the Babylonian Empire also spoke Aramaic. They would take the Israelites captive to Babylon, where things would change permanently, where the Israelites would have to learn Aramaic, and Aramaic would ultimately become more commonly spoken than Hebrew.
• But we shall leave that fascinating history to the next lesson...