2 Kings 18:36

English Standard Version 2016

But the people were silent and answered him not a word, for the king’s command was, “Do not answer him.”

Cross References

Matthew 7:6

“Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.

Amos 5:13

Therefore he who is prudent will keep silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.

Proverbs 26:4

Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself.

Proverbs 9:7

Whoever corrects a scoffer gets himself abuse, and he who reproves a wicked man incurs injury.

Psalm 39:1

I said, “I will guard my ways, that I may not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle, so long as the wicked are in my presence.”

2 Kings 18:35

Who among all the gods of the lands have delivered their lands out of my hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’”

2 Kings 18:37

Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and told him the words of the Rabshakeh.

Ecclesiastes 3:7

a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;