Isaiah 36:21

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But the people remained silent and did not answer him a word, because the king had commanded, 'Do not answer him.'

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  • Prov 26:4 : 4 Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you will become like him yourself.
  • Amos 5:13 : 13 Therefore, the prudent person will keep silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.
  • Matt 7:6 : 6 Do not give what is holy to dogs, nor cast your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to tear you to pieces.
  • 2 Kgs 18:26 : 26 Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, Shebnah, and Joah said to the Rab-shakeh, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don’t speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall."
  • 2 Kgs 18:37 : 37 Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and reported to him the words of the Rab-shakeh.
  • Ps 38:13-15 : 13 Those who seek my life lay snares for me; those who seek to harm me speak of ruin and plot deception all day long. 14 But I am like a deaf man who does not hear, and like a mute man who cannot open his mouth. 15 I have become like a man who does not hear and in whose mouth there are no rebukes.
  • Ps 39:1 : 1 For the director of music, for Jeduthun, a psalm of David.
  • Prov 9:7-8 : 7 Whoever corrects a mocker invites insult; whoever rebukes a wicked person incurs abuse. 8 Do not rebuke a mocker, or they will hate you; rebuke a wise person, and they will love you.

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    35 Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem from my hand?'

    36 But the people remained silent and did not answer him a word, because the king had commanded, ‘Do not answer him.’

    37 Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and reported to him the words of the Rab-shakeh.

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

  • Job 32:14-16
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    14 But Job has not directed his words against me, and I will not answer him with your arguments.

    15 They are dismayed and have no more to say; words have left them.

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  • Jer 36:24-25
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    24 Neither the king nor any of his servants who heard all these words were afraid or tore their garments in sorrow.

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    27 All the officials did come to Jeremiah and questioned him, and he told them everything the king had ordered him to say. So they said no more to him, for no one had heard the conversation.

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    11 Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, 'Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don’t speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.'

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    26 Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, Shebnah, and Joah said to the Rab-shakeh, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don’t speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall."

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    9 Leaders refrained from speaking and laid their hands on their mouths.

    10 The voices of nobles quieted, and their tongues stuck to the roofs of their mouths.

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    13 Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out in a loud voice in Hebrew: 'Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!

    14 This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he cannot deliver you!

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    18 They called for the king, so Eliakim son of Hilkiah, Shebnah the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went out to meet them.

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    16 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of the LORD:

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    16 His servants continued to speak against the LORD God and against His servant Hezekiah.

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