 Shebna also appears to have been the leader of the party who favored an alliance with Egypt against Assyria.Shebna may have been the same "Shebna the scribe" who was sent by Hezekiah to confer with the Assyrian ambassador recorded in the Books of Kings (; ; parallel accounts in , , ; ).A royal steward's rock-cut tomb discovered in Siloam is believed to be his, although only the last three letters of the name remain legible on the lintel from the tomb that is now kept in the British Museum.