Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
And they will be silent and not answer him a word: for this the command of the king, saying, Ye shall not answer.
New American Standard Bible
But they were silent and
King James Version
But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
Holman Bible
But they kept silent; they didn’t say anything, for the king’s command was, “Don’t answer him.”
International Standard Version
But the people remained silent and didn't respond to him with so much as a single word, because the king had commanded, "Don't answer him."
A Conservative Version
But they held their peace, and answered him not a word. For the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
American Standard Version
But they held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
Amplified
But they kept silent and did not say a word to him in reply, for King Hezekiah’s command was, “Do not answer him.”
Bible in Basic English
But they kept quiet and gave him no answer: for the king's order was, Give him no answer.
Darby Translation
And they were silent, and answered him not a word; for the king's command was, saying, Answer him not.
King James 2000
But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
Lexham Expanded Bible
But they were silent and did not answer him a word, for the command of the king was, "You must not answer him."
Modern King James verseion
But they were silent and did not answer him a word, for the king's command, saying, Do not answer him.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Unto this Hezekiah's messengers held their tongues, and answered not one word: for the king had charged them that they should give him none answer.
NET Bible
They were silent and did not respond, for the king had ordered, "Don't respond to him."
New Heart English Bible
But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king's commandment was, "Do not answer him."
The Emphasized Bible
But they held their peace, and answered him not a word, - for the command of the king, it was, saying, - Ye must not answer him.
Webster
But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
World English Bible
But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king's commandment was, "Don't answer him."
Youngs 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.'
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 36:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
Sennacherib Threatens Jerusalem
20 Who among all the gods of these lands who delivered their land from my hand, that Jehovah will deliver Jerusalem from my hand? 21 And they will be silent and not answer him a word: for this the command of the king, saying, Ye shall not answer. 22 And Eliakim son of Hilkiah who was over the house, will go in, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph, remembering, to Hezekiah, their garments rent, and they will announce to him the words of Rabshakeh.
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 26:4
Thou shalt not answer the foolish according to his folly lest thou shalt be like to him.
2 Kings 18:26
And Eliakim son of Hilkiah, will say, and Shebna, and Joah, to Rabshakeh, Speak now to thy servants in Syriac; for we hear: and thou shalt not speak with us in Judaic in the ears of the people who are upon the wall
2 Kings 18:37
And there came Eliakim, son of Hilkiah, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph reminding, to Hezekiah, their garments rent; and they will announce to him the words of Rabshakeh.
Psalm 38:13-15
And they seeking my soul will lay snares: and they seeking my evil spake mischief, and they will meditate deceits all the day,
Psalm 39:1
To the overseer, to Jeduthun: chanting of David. I said, I will watch my way from sinning with my tongue: I will watch for my mouth with a muzzle while yet the unjust one is before me.
Proverbs 9:7-8
He instructing him mocking received to himself dishonor: and he reproving to the unjust one, his blemish.
Amos 5:13
For this the prudent one shall be silent in that time, for it is an evil time.
Matthew 7:6
Ye should not give the holy thing to dogs neither should ye cast your pearls before swine, lest they tread them down with their feet, and having turned, should rend yon.