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36 The people were silent and did not respond, for the king had ordered, “Don’t respond to him.”

37 Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went to Hezekiah with their clothes torn[a] and reported to him what the chief adviser had said.

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  1. 2 Kings 18:37 sn As a sign of grief and mourning.