2 Kings 18:36-37

Complete Jewish Bible

³⁶ But the people kept still and didn’t answer him so much as a word; for the king’s order was, “Don’t answer him.”

³⁷ Then Elyakim the son of Hilkiyah, who was in charge of the household, Shevnah the general secretary and Yo’ach the son of Asaf the foreign minister went to Hizkiyahu with their clothes torn and reported to him what Rav-Shakeh had said.