The Importance of Listening to Has a Kaya

The people were silent and answered not a word for the king's command was do not answer them. This tells me that has a Kaya is a he's a little bit, he's alittle smart,. He's a little shrewd. So they didn't listen to what the Assyrian official said in this sense of obeying him. The fact that they didn't respond indicates some implicit trust in him.