Isaiah 36:21

KJV1611 – Modern English

But they held their peace and answered him not a word, for the king's order was, Do not answer him.

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  • Prov 26:4 : 4 Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.
  • Amos 5:13 : 13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
  • Matt 7:6 : 6 Do not give what is holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
  • 2 Kgs 18:26 : 26 Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah said to Rabshakeh, Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it, and do not speak with us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.
  • 2 Kgs 18:37 : 37 Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder, went to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
  • Ps 38:13-15 : 13 But I, like a deaf man, do not hear, and I am like a mute man who does not open his mouth. 14 Thus I am like a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no responses. 15 For in you, O LORD, do I hope; you will hear, O Lord my God.
  • Ps 39:1 : 1 I said, I will be careful of my ways, so that I do not sin with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked are before me.
  • Prov 9:7-8 : 7 He who reproves a scoffer gets to himself shame: and he who rebukes a wicked man gets himself a blot. 8 Reprove not a scoffer, lest he hate you: rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.

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