But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.


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Isaiah 36 21 But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
1 Kings 12 13 And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men's counsel that they gave him;
2 Chronicles 10 13 And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men,
Jeremiah 38 27 Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him: and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.
1 Samuel 8 19 Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;
Luke 20 26 And they could not take hold of his words before the people: and they marvelled at his answer, and held their peace.
2 Samuel 18 30 And the king said unto him, Turn aside, and stand here. And he turned aside, and stood still.
Psalms 2 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
Judges 11 28 Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.
Ecclesiastes 8 4 Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
Jeremiah 36 24 Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.
2 Chronicles 10 15 So the king hearkened not unto the people: for the cause was of God, that the LORD might perform his word, which he spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
2 Chronicles 34 28 Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again.
1 Kings 12 15 Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the LORD spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
Proverbs 16 10 A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment.
2 Kings 23 3 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.
2 Chronicles 34 31 And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.
Psalms 72 1 Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son.
2 Samuel 15 3 And Absalom said unto him, See, thy matters are good and right; but there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee.
Jeremiah 7 27 Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.
Nehemiah 9 34 Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them.
Esther 4 11 All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or women, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.
Psalms 83 1 Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
2 Samuel 14 10 And the king said, Whoever saith ought unto thee, bring him to me, and he shall not touch thee any more.
2 Samuel 19 19 And said unto the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.
2 Samuel 15 35 And hast thou not there with thee Zadok and Abiathar the priests? therefore it shall be, that what thing soever thou shalt hear out of the king's house, thou shalt tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.
Proverbs 25 6 Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men:
Genesis 41 16 And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.
Daniel 11 36 And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
Job 29 21 Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
Jeremiah 37 2 But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, did hearken unto the words of the LORD, which he spake by the prophet Jeremiah.
Mark 6 26 And the king was exceeding sorry; yet for his oath's sake, and for their sakes which sat with him, he would not reject her.
Esther 3 3 Then the king's servants, which were in the king's gate, said unto Mordecai, Why transgressest thou the king's commandment?
2 Chronicles 8 15 And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.
1 Kings 20 9 Wherefore he said unto the messengers of Benhadad, Tell my lord the king, All that thou didst send for to thy servant at the first I will do: but this thing I may not do. And the messengers departed, and brought him word again.
2 Kings 10 4 But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, two kings stood not before him: how then shall we stand?
Esther 1 12 But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by his chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him.
Daniel 3 16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.
1 Samuel 8 9 Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.
Daniel 9 6 Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
Jeremiah 11 8 Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do: but they did them not.
2 Samuel 13 25 And the king said to Absalom, Nay, my son, let us not all now go, lest we be chargeable unto thee. And he pressed him: howbeit he would not go, but blessed him.
Luke 19 40 And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.
2 Samuel 15 15 And the king's servants said unto the king, Behold, thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint.
Esther 1 13 Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the times, for so was the king's manner toward all that knew law and judgment:
1 Kings 20 8 And all the elders and all the people said unto him, Hearken not unto him, nor consent.
Joshua 6 10 And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then shall ye shout.
2 Samuel 14 24 And the king said, Let him turn to his own house, and let him not see my face. So Absalom returned to his own house, and saw not the king's face.
Jeremiah 38 25 But if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and they come unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what thou hast said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we will not put thee to death; also what the king said unto thee:
1 Kings 13 8 And the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give me half thine house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place: