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.
Parallel translations
- WEB 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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- 2 Kgs 18:32until 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, a land of olive trees and honey—so that you may live and not die. But do not listen to Hezekiah, for he misleads you when he says, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’
- Deut 11:12It is a land for which the LORD your God cares; the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning to the end of the year.
- 2 Kgs 24:11And Nebuchadnezzar 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 captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.
- 2 Kgs 18:9–12In the fourth year of Hezekiah’s reign, which was the seventh year of the reign of Hoshea son of Elah over Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria and besieged it.
- Job 20:17He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream.
- Prov 12:10A righteous man regards the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are only cruelty.
- Deut 8:7–9For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills;
- Exod 3:8I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
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