2 Kings 18:36-37

New Living Translation

³⁶ But the people were silent and did not utter a word because Hezekiah had commanded them, “Do not answer him.”

³⁷ Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace administrator; Shebna the court secretary; and Joah son of Asaph, the royal historian, went back to Hezekiah. They tore their clothes in despair, and they went in to see the king and told him what the Assyrian chief of staff had said.