2 Kings 18:36 - Revised Version 1885

³⁶ But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁶ But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁶ But the people were silent and answered him not a word, for Hezekiah had commanded, Do not answer him.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁶ But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

Common English Bible

³⁶ But the people kept quiet and didn’t answer him with a single word, because King Hezekiah’s command was, “Don’t answer him!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁶ But the people were silent, and they did not respond at all to him. For indeed, they had received an instruction from the king that they should not respond to him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁶ But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for they had received commandment from the king that they should not answer him.

2 Kings 18:36 Tagairtí Cros

2 Kings 18:35

Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?

2 Kings 18:37

Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which 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.

Psalm 39:1

I said, I will take heed to my ways, That I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, While the wicked is before me.

Proverbs 26:4

Answer not a fool according to his folly, Lest thou also be like unto him.

Proverbs 9:7

He that correcteth a scorner getteth to himself shame: And he that reproveth a wicked man getteth himself a blot.

Ecclesiastes 3:7

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

Amos 5:13

Therefore he that is prudent shall keep silence in such a time; for it is an evil time.

Matthew 7:6

Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast your pearls before the swine, lest haply they trample them under their feet, and turn and rend you.