In Isaiah 36 we read about: "Sennacherib, king of Assyria, Threatens Jerusalem". He sends messengers arguing that Judah should surrender to Assyria because they can't trust in the power of Egypt or the power of the Lord. If they don't surrender, Jerusalem be surround and there will be a great famine and thirst. The messengers are talking to three men sent by king Hezekiah, but they say in Hebrew to all people:
“Do you think my master has sent me to give this message to your master and you but not also to the people clustered here? It’s their fate that’s at stake. They’re the ones who are going to end up eating their own excrement and drinking their own urine.”
'Listen to the message of the Great King, the king of Assyria! Don’t listen to Hezekiah’s lies. He can’t save you. And don’t pay any attention to Hezekiah’s pious sermons telling you to lean on God, telling you ‘God will save us, depend on it. God won’t let this city fall to the king of Assyria.’
21 The three men were silent. They said nothing, for the king had already commanded, “Don’t answer him.”
We, as Christian, must have wisdom not to answer certain lies from Satan.
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