2 Kings 18:36-37

New International Reader's Version

³⁶ But the people remained silent. They didn’t say anything. That’s because King Hezekiah had commanded, “Don’t answer him.”

³⁷ Then Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, went to Hezekiah. Eliakim was in charge of the palace. Shebna the secretary went with him. So did Joah, the son of Asaph. Joah kept the records. All of them went to Hezekiah with their clothes torn. They told him what the field commander had said.