21And they keep silent, and have not answered him a word, for a command of the king is, saying, 'Do not answer him.'


In Context

18 lest Hezekiah doth persuade you, saying, Jehovah doth deliver us. 'Have the gods of the nations delivered each his land out of the hand of the king of Asshur?

19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where the gods of Sepharvaim, that they have delivered Samaria out of my hand?

20 Who among all the gods of these lands are they who have delivered their land out of my hand, that Jehovah doth deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?'

21 And they keep silent, and have not answered him a word, for a command of the king is, saying, 'Do not answer him.'

22 And Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who is over the house, cometh in, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph, the remembrancer, unto Hezekiah with rent garments, and they declare to him the words of Rabshakeh.

Isaiah 36:21 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

36:21But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

36:21But the people remained silent and said nothing in reply, because the king had commanded, "Do not answer him."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

36:21And they held their peace, and answered him not a word. For the king had commanded, saying: answer him not.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

36:21But they held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

36:21And they were silent, and answered him not a word; for the king's command was, saying, Answer him not.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

36:21But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

36:21But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

36:21But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king's commandment was, |Don't answer him.|

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

36:21But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.