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Isaiah 36:21
And they keep silent, and have not answered him a word, for a command of the king is, saying, `Do not answer him.'
Isaiah 36:21 · Young's Literal Translation
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Isaiah 36:21 in other translations
But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
But the people remained silent and did not answer a word, for Hezekiah had commanded, “Do not answer him.”
But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”
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In context
18 lest Hezekiah doth persuade you, saying, Jehovah doth deliver us. `Have the gods of the nations delivered each his land out of the hand of the king of Asshur?
19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where the gods of Sepharvaim, that they have delivered Samaria out of my hand?
20 Who among all the gods of these lands are they who have delivered their land out of my hand, that Jehovah doth deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?'
21 And they keep silent, and have not answered him a word, for a command of the king is, saying, `Do not answer him.'
22 And Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who is over the house, cometh in, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph, the remembrancer, unto Hezekiah with rent garments, and they declare to him the words of Rabshakeh.
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