Isaiah 36:21
But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
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Context
19 Where the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
20 Who among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the Yahuah should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
21 But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
22 Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.