Isaiah 36:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Isaiah 36:21 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 26:4
Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
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.
Amos 5:13
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
Psalms 38:13-15
But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth. …
Psalms 39:1
To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. 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.

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Blasphemy Cursing God Profanity Speaking Swearing Worship

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 11-22)

We may hence learn these lessons:—1. That, while princes and counsellors have public matters under debate, it is not fair to appeal to the people. It was a reasonable motion which Hezekiah’s plenipotentiaries made, that this parley should be held in a language which the people did not understand (Isa. 36:11), because reasons of state are secret things and ought to be kept secret, the vulgar being…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 21)

21. not a word--so as not to enter into a war of words with the blasphemer (Ex 14:14; Jude 9).