Isaiah 36:21
But the people who were listening were silent. No one said anything, because King Hezekiah had commanded, “ When the official from Assyria talks to you, do not answer him.”
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2 Kings 18:37Then Eliakim the palace administrator and Shebna the court secretary and Joah the royal historian went back to Hezekiah with their clothes torn because they were extremely distressed, and they told him what the official from Assyria had said.
Psalms 39:1I said to myself, “I will be careful not to sin by the things that I say [MTY]. I will not say anything to complain while wicked people are near to me and can hear me.”
Proverbs 26:4If a foolish person asks a foolish question, do not answer him, because if you answer his question, you are just as foolish as he is.
Matthew 7:6“You do not give holy things to dogs that would ignore those things and attack you [CHI]. You do not throw pearls in front of hogs, because they would just ignore them and trample them. Similarly, do not give precious spiritual truth to people you know will not value it but instead will do evil things to you.”
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 36:12-22
Sennacherib's Insolent Message. ( b. c. 710.) 11 Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall. 12 But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you? 13 Then Rabshakeh… Read the whole commentary →