2 Kings 18:36
2 Kings chapter 18 · verse 36 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
KJV
King James Version · 1611But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
Context
v.35Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Jehovah should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
v.36This passage
v.37Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Matthew 7:6
Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast your pearls before the swine, lest haply they trample them under their feet, and turn and rend you.
- Amos 5:13
Therefore he that is prudent shall keep silence in such a time; for it is an evil time.
- Psalms 39:1
I said, I will take heed to my ways, That I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, While the wicked is before me.
- Psalms 38:13
But I, as a deaf man, hear not; And I am as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
- Proverbs 26:4
Answer not a fool according to his folly, Lest thou also be like unto him.
- Proverbs 9:7
He that correcteth a scoffer getteth to himself reviling; And he that reproveth a wicked man getteth himself a blot.