2 Kings 18:36

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The people were silent and did not respond, for the king had ordered,“Don’t respond to him.”

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 38:13-14 : 13 But I am like a deaf man– I hear nothing; I am like a mute who cannot speak. 14 I am like a man who cannot hear and is incapable of arguing his defense.
  • Ps 39:1 : 1 For the music director, Jeduthun; a psalm of David. I decided,“I will watch what I say and make sure I do not sin with my tongue. I will put a muzzle over my mouth while in the presence of an evil man.”
  • Prov 9:7 : 7 Whoever corrects a mocker is asking for insult; whoever reproves a wicked person receives abuse.
  • Prov 26:4 : 4 Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you yourself also be like him.
  • Amos 5:13 : 13 For this reason whoever is smart keeps quiet in such a time, for it is an evil time.
  • Matt 7:6 : 6 Do not give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before pigs; otherwise they will trample them under their feet and turn around and tear you to pieces.

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    20Who among all the gods of these lands have rescued their lands from my power? So how can the LORD rescue Jerusalem from my power?’”

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    22Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and reported to him what the chief adviser had said.

  • 2 Kgs 18:37
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    37Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and reported to him what the chief adviser had said.

  • 2 Kgs 18:26
    74%

    26Eliakim son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah said to the chief adviser,“Speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Judahite dialect in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

  • 2 Kgs 18:35
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    35Who among all the gods of the lands has rescued their lands from my power? So how can the LORD rescue Jerusalem from my power?’”

  • Isa 36:11
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    11Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the chief adviser,“Speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Judahite dialect in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

  • Jer 36:24-25
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    24Neither he nor any of his attendants showed any alarm when they heard all that had been read. Nor did they tear their clothes to show any grief or sorrow.

    25The king did not even listen to Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah, who had urged him not to burn the scroll.

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    14Job has not directed his words to me, and so I will not reply to him with your arguments.

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    13The chief adviser then stood there and called out loudly in the Judahite dialect,“Listen to the message of the great king, the king of Assyria.

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  • 2 Kgs 18:28-29
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    28The chief adviser then stood there and called out loudly in the Judahite dialect,“Listen to the message of the great king, the king of Assyria.

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    46No one was able to answer him a word, and from that day on no one dared to question him any longer.

  • 2 Kgs 18:18-19
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    18They summoned the king, so Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went out to meet them.

    19The chief adviser said to them,“Tell Hezekiah:‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says:“What is your source of confidence?

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    16Isaiah said to Hezekiah,“Listen to the LORD’s message,

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  • 1 Kgs 20:8
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  • 2 Chr 34:26
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  • 2 Kgs 22:18
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    18Say this to the king of Judah, who sent you to seek an oracle from the LORD:“This is what the LORD God of Israel has said concerning the words you have heard:

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    18Hezekiah is misleading you when he says,“The LORD will rescue us.” Has any of the gods of the nations rescued his land from the power of the king of Assyria?

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    41They cry out, but there is no one to help them; they cry out to the LORD, but he does not answer them.

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    12But when he was accused by the chief priests and the elders, he did not respond.

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    42They cry out, but there is no one to help them; they cry out to the LORD, but he does not answer them.

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