King James Version (KJV)
Isaiah 36:21
“But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.”
Verse in context — Isaiah 36
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Where [are] the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where [are] the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
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Who [are they] among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
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But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
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Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that [was] over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with [their] clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
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