^18:37Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went to Hezekiah with their clothes torn⁴⁸ and reported to him what the chief adviser had said. ^19:1When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and went to the Lord’s temple. ^19:2He sent Eliakim the palace supervisor, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests,¹ clothed in sackcloth, with this message to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz:

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48 As a sign of grief and mourning.
1 Heb “elders of the priests.”