Isaiah 36:17

Till I come and take you away to a land like yours, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vine-gardens.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

16Do not give ear to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says, Make peace with me, and come out to me; and everyone will be free to take the fruit of his vine and of his fig-tree, and the water of his spring;

18Give no attention to Hezekiah when he says to you, The Lord will keep us safe. Has any one of the gods of the nations kept his land from falling into the hands of the king of Assyria?

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Cross References

Exodus 3:8And I have come down to take them out of the hands of the Egyptians, guiding them out of that land into a good land and wide, into a land flowing with milk and honey; into the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.

Deuteronomy 11:12A land cared for by the Lord your God: the eyes of the Lord your God are on it at all times from one end of the year to the other.

2 Kings 18:9Now in 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, shutting it in with his armies.

2 Kings 24:11And Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came there, while his servants were shutting in the town;

Proverbs 12:10An upright man has thought for the life of his beast, but the hearts of evil-doers are cruel.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 36:12-22

Sennacherib's Insolent Message. ( b. c. 710.) 11 Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall. 12 But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you? 13 Then Rabshakeh… Read the whole commentary →

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