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Isaiah Chapter 36 verse 21 Holy Bible

ASV Isaiah 36:21

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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BBE Isaiah 36:21

But they kept quiet and gave him no answer: for the king's order was, Give him no answer.
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DARBY Isaiah 36:21

And they were silent, and answered him not a word; for the king's command was, saying, Answer him not.
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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.
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WBT Isaiah 36:21

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WEB Isaiah 36:21

But they held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king's commandment was, saying, Don't answer him.
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YLT 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.'
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 21. - They (i.e. the people, as in 2 Kings 18:36) held their peace. Rabshakeh's attempt to shake their fidelity had, at any rate, no manifest effect. For the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not. Hezekiah can scarcely have anticipated that Rabshakeh would so far depart from ordinary usage as to make a speech to "the men on the wall." But he may have been in the immediate neighbourhood, and, when apprised of the envoy's proceedings, may have sent the order. We are not to suppose that the Jewish king was at a loss for an answer. He did not choose to bandy words with an envoy who had behaved himself so outrageously.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(21) But they held their peace . . .--Hezekiah seems to have commanded silence, as if distrustful either of the wisdom of the ambassadors or of the effect which any chance words might have upon the garrison and people of Jerusalem. As it was, the only words they had spoken (Isaiah 36:11) had made matters infinitely worse.