Isaiah 36:21
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
But the people remained silent and did not answer a word, for Hezekiah had commanded, “Do not answer him.”
In context
19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
20 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?”
21 But the people remained silent and did not answer a word, for Hezekiah had commanded, “Do not answer him.”
22 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.
Isaiah 36:21 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- But the people remained silent and did not answer a word, for Hezekiah had commanded, “Do not answer him.”
- KJV King James Version
- But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
- WEB World English Bible
- But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”
- ASV American Standard Version
- But they held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And they keep silent, and have not answered him a word, for a command of the king is, saying, 'Do not answer him.'
- DBY Darby Translation
- And they were silent, and answered him not a word; for the king's command was, saying, Answer him not.
- WBS Webster Bible
- But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.