2 Kings 18:36

Douay-Rheims Bible

But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for they had received commandment from the king that they should not answer him.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But the people kept silent; they did not answer him at all, for the king’s command was, “Don’t answer him.”

Hebrew Names Version
But the people held their shalom, and answered him not a word; for the king's mitzvah was, saying, Don't answer him.

King James Version
But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

English Standard Version
But the people were silent and answered him not a word, for the king's command was, "Do not answer him."

New Century Version
The people were silent. They didn't answer the commander at all, because King Hezekiah had ordered, "Don't answer him."

New English Translation
The people were silent and did not respond, for the king had ordered, "Don't respond to him."

Amplified Bible
But the people kept silent and did not answer him, for the king had commanded, "Do not answer him."

New American Standard Bible
But the people were silent and did not answer him with even a word, because it was the king's command: "Do not answer him."

World English Bible
But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king's commandment was, saying, Don't answer him.

Geneva Bible (1587)
But the people helde their peace, and answered not him a worde: for the Kings commandement was, saying, Answere ye him not.

Legacy Standard Bible
But the people were silent and answered him not a word, for the king's commandment was, "Do not answer him."

Berean Standard Bible
But the people remained silent and did not answer a word, for Hezekiah had commanded, "Do not answer him."

Contemporary English Version
Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah had been warned by King Hezekiah not to answer the Assyrian commander. So they tore their clothes in sorrow and reported to Hezekiah everything the commander had said.

Complete Jewish Bible
But the people kept still and didn't answer him so much as a word; for the king's order was, "Don't answer him."

Darby Translation
But the people were silent and answered him not a word; for the king's command was, saying, Answer him not.

Easy-to-Read Version
But the people were silent. They did not say a word to the commander, because King Hezekiah had commanded them, "Don't say anything to him."

George Lamsa Translation
But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king had commanded, saying, Do not answer him.

Good News Translation
The people kept quiet, just as King Hezekiah had told them to; they did not say a word.

Lexham English Bible
The people were silent, and they did not answer him a word, for the command of that king was saying, "You shall not answer him."

Literal Translation
But the people kept silent and did not answer him a word, for the command of the king was, saying, Do not answer him.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
As for the people, they helde their peace, and gaue him no answere: for the kynge had commaunded and sayde: Answere him nothinge.

American Standard Version
But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

Bible in Basic English
But the people kept quiet and gave him no answer: for the king's order was, Give him no answer.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But the people held their peace, and aunswered not him a word: for the king had commaunded, saying: Aunswere hym not.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king's commandment was, saying: 'Answer him not.'

King James Version (1611)
But the people helde their peace, and answered him not a word: for the kings commaundement was, saying, Answere him not.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But the men were silent, and answered him not a word: for there was a commandment of the king, saying, Ye shall not answer him.

English Revised Version
But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor the puple was stille, and answeride not ony thing to hym; for thei hadden take comaundement of the kyng, that thei schulden not answere to hym.

Young's Literal Translation
And the people have kept silent, and have not answered him a word, for the command of the king is, saying, `Do not answer him.'

Update Bible Version
But the people held their peace, and did not answer him a word; for the king's commandment was, saying, Don't answer him.

Webster's Bible Translation
But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

New King James Version
But the people held their peace and answered him not a word; for the king's commandment was, "Do not answer him."

New Living Translation
But the people were silent and did not utter a word because Hezekiah had commanded them, "Do not answer him."

New Life Bible
But the people were quiet. They did not answer him a word. For Hezekiah had told them, "Do not answer him."

New Revised Standard
But the people were silent and answered him not a word, for the king's command was, "Do not answer him."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word, - for, the command of the king, it was, saying - Ye must not answer him.

Revised Standard Version
But the people were silent and answered him not a word, for the king's command was, "Do not answer him."

THE MESSAGE
The people were silent. No one spoke a word for the king had ordered, "Don't anyone say a word—not one word!"

New American Standard Bible (1995)
But the people were silent and answered him not a word, for the king's commandment was, "Do not answer him."

Contextual Overview

¹⁷ And the king of the Assyrians sent Tharthan, and Rabsaris, and Rabsaces, from Lachis, to king Ezechias, with a strong army, to Jerusalem: and they went up and came to Jerusalem, and they stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the way of the fuller’s field. ¹⁸ And they called for the king: and there went out to them Eliacim, the son of Helcias, who was over the house, and Sobna, the scribe, and Joahe, the son of Asaph, the recorder. ¹⁹ And Rabsaces said to them: Speak to Ezechias: Thus saith the great king, the king of the Assyrians: What is this confidence, wherein thou trustest? ²⁰ Perhaps thou hast taken counsel, to prepare thyself for battle. On whom dost thou trust, that thou darest to rebel? ²¹ Dost thou trust in Egypt a staff of a broken reed, upon which if a man lean, it will break and go into his hand, and pierce it? so is Pharao, king of Egypt, to all that trust in him. ²² But if you say to me: We trust in the Lord, our God: is it not he, whose high places and altars Ezechias hath taken away: and hath commanded Juda and Jerusalem: You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem? ²³ Now therefore come over to my master, the king of the Assyrians, and I will give you two thousand horses, and see whether you be able to have riders for them. ²⁴ And how can you stand against one lord of the least of my master’s servants? Dost thou trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? ²⁵ Is it without the will of the Lord that I am come up to this place to destroy it? The Lord said to me: Go up to this land, and destroy it. ²⁶ Then Eliacim, the son of Helcias, and Sobna, and Joahe, said to Rabsaces: We pray thee, speak to us, thy servants, in Syriac: for we understand that tongue: and speak not to us in the Jews’ language, in the hearing of the people that are upon the wall.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

held their peace: Psalms 38:13, Psalms 38:14, Psalms 39:1, Proverbs 9:7, Proverbs 26:4, Amos 5:13, Matthew 7:6

Reciprocal: Proverbs 11:12 - a man

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 36. Answer him not. — The blasphemy is too barefaced; Jehovah is insulted, not you; let him avenge his own quarrel. See the 2 Kings 19:0.