Bible verse
But the people remained silent and did not answer a word, for Hezekiah had commanded, “Do not answer him.”
2 Kings 18:36 · BSB
The verses around it, from 2 Kings 18.
32 until I come and take you away to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey—so that you may live and not die. But do not listen to Hezekiah, for he misleads you when he says, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’
33 Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?
34 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
35 Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered his land from my hand? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”
36 But the people remained silent and did not answer a word, for Hezekiah had commanded, “Do not answer him.”
37 Then Hilkiah’s son Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Asaph’s son Joah the recorder came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and they relayed to him the words of the Rabshakeh.
KJV
But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
ASV
But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
ERV
But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
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