“But they were silent.
They answered him not a word.
The king’s command was.
‘Do not answer him.’
Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah,
Who was in charge of the palace,
Shebnah the secretary,
With Joah son of Asaph,
The recorder,
Came to King Hezekiah
With their clothes torn.
They told him the words of Rabshakeh.”
Once again in the same words as 2 Kings, chapter 18, there was no response to Rabshakeh, after his Hebrew presentation on why they should surrender rather than rely on their own God, Yahweh. King Hezekiah had told his messengers not to respond. These 3 officials from Judah, Eliakim, Shebnah, and Joah went with torn clothes to King Hezekiah. They told him what Rabshakeh had said.
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