Catholic Public Domain Version
"And they remained silent and did not answer a word to him. For the king had commanded them, saying, “You shall not respond to him.” "
— Isaiah 36:21, Catholic Public Domain Version
“But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.”
“But they held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not. ”
“But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king's commandment was, "Don't answer him."”
“They were silent and did not respond, for the king had ordered,“Don’t respond to him.””
“And they held their peace, and answered him not a word. For the king had commanded, saying: Answer him not.”
“But they kept quiet and gave him no answer: for the king's order was, Give him no answer.”
“But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.”
But you should not let Hezekiah disturb you, saying, ‘The Lord will deliver us.’ Have any of the gods of each of the nations delivered their land from the hand of the king of the Assyrians?
Where is the god of Hamath and of Arpad? Where is the god of Sepharvaim? Have they freed Samaria from my hand?
Who is there, among all the gods of these lands, who has rescued his land from my hand, so that the Lord would rescue Jerusalem from my hand?”
And they remained silent and did not answer a word to him. For the king had commanded them, saying, “You shall not respond to him.”
And Eliakim, son of Hilkiah, who was over the house, and Shebna, the scribe, and Joah, son of Asaph, the historian, entered to Hezekiah with their garments rent, and they reported to him the words of Rabshakeh.