2 Kings 18:36 KJV — MannaFest

2 Kings 18:36

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

But the people remained silent and did not answer a word, for Hezekiah had commanded, “Do not answer him.”

YLT

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.'

DBT

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

About this book

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2 Kings — Two kingdoms on parallel but diverging arcs. Elisha's ministry; Samaria falls to Assyria in 722 BC; Jerusalem falls to Babylon in 586 BC. Prophets interpose; kings refuse; the exile comes — and closes on a whisper of covenant hope.

Author: Compiler anonymous; Jewish tradition attributes to Jeremiah (same as 1 Kings)
Date: Events c. 852–560 BC; closing coda places composition in the mid-exile, c. 560 BC

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7 verses on the floor

Proverbs 26:4
Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
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.
Matthew 7:6
Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
Psalms 38:13–14
But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
Amos 5:13
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.

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One interruption they gave him in his discourse, which was only to desire that he would speak to them now in the Syrian language, and they would consider what he said and report it to the king, and, if they did not give him a satisfactory answer, then he might appeal to the people, by speaking in the Jews' language,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

His great piety, which was the more wonderful because his father was very wicked and vile, one of the worst of the kings, yet he was one of the best, which may intimate to us that what good there is in any is not of nature, but of grace, free grace, sovereign grace, which, contrary to nature, grafts into the good olive that which was wild by nature ( Rom. xi.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

We must never dishonour God, in honour to our earthly parents. Brazen serpent - Which had been hitherto kept as a memorial of God's mercy; but being now commonly abused to superstition, was destroyed. To it - Not doubtless as to a God, but only as to an instrument of God's mercy, by and through which, their adoration was directed to God, and given to that only for God's sake.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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