21. But they kept still and answered him not a word, for the king's [Hezekiah's] command was, Do not answer him.
22. Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, the recording historian came to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of the Rabshakeh [the Assyrian military official].