Isaiah 36:17

Till I come and bring you to a land like your owne land, euen a land of wheate, and wine, a land of bread and vineyardes,

Geneva Bible 1599

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

16Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus sayth the King of Asshur, Make appointment with me, and come out to me, that euery man may eate of his owne vine, and euery man of his owne fig tree, and drinke euery man the water of his owne well,

18Least Hezekiah deceiue you, saying, The Lord wil deliuer vs. Hath any of the gods of the nations deliuered his land out of the hand of the King of Asshur?

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Cross References

Exodus 3:8Therefore I am come downe to deliuer them out of the hande of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that lande into a good lande and a large, into a lande that floweth with milke and honie, euen into the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hiuites, and the Iebusites.

Deuteronomy 11:12This land doth the Lord thy God care for: the eies of the Lord thy God are alwaies vpon it, from the beginning of the yeere, euen vnto the ende of the yeere.

2 Kings 18:9And in the fourth yere of King Hezekiah, (which was the seuenth yeere of Hoshea sonne of Elah King of Israel) Shalmaneser King of Asshur came vp against Samaria, and besieged it.

2 Kings 24:11And Nebuchad-nezzar King of Babel came against the citie, and his seruants did besiege it.

Proverbs 12:10A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the mercies of the wicked are cruell.

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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