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until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
Isaiah 36:17 · World English Bible
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  • KJV Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
  • BSB until I come and take you away to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
  • NKJV until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
  • NASB until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
  • NLT Then I will arrange to take you to another land like this one—a land of grain and new wine, bread and vineyards.

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Quick answer

He admits the 'peace' means deportation to a distant land, dressed up as a place of plenty.

Overview

The Rabshakeh reveals that surrender leads to exile, yet frames it as relocation to a land as good as their own. This was Assyria's policy of deporting conquered peoples. The deceptive promise contrasts with God's true promise to keep his people in the land, exposing the hollowness of the enemy's offer.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 9

  • 2 Kgs 18:32until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and of honey, that you may live, and not die. Don’t listen to Hezekiah, when he persuades you, saying, “Yahweh will deliver us.”
  • Deut 11:12a land which Yahweh your God cares for. Yahweh your God’s eyes are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.
  • 2 Kgs 24:11Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it,
  • 2 Kgs 17:6–23In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
  • 2 Kgs 18:9–12In the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
  • Job 20:17He shall not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.
  • Prov 12:10A righteous man respects the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
  • Deut 8:7–9For Yahweh your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing into valleys and hills;
  • Exod 3:8I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

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Christ at the center

Isaiah sees him most clearly: the virgin's son Immanuel, the child on David's throne, the shoot from Jesse, the light to the nations, and above all the Suffering Servant pierced for our transgressions (ch. 53).

How Isaiah 36:17 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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