Isaiah 36:17

Until I come and take you, into A land like your own land,—A land of corn and new wine, A land of bread and vineyards:—

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 hearken unto Hezekiah,—for, thus, saith the king of Assyria, Deal with me thankfully, and come out unto me, Then shall ye eat, Every one of his own vine and Every one of his own fig-tree, And drink every one the Waters of his own cistern:

18Lest Hezekiah, persuade you, saying, Yahweh will deliver us! Have the gods of the nations, delivered,—any one of them—his country, out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

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Cross References

Exodus 3:8therefore have I come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians, and to take them up out of that land, into a land good and large, 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 which Yahweh thy God careth for,—continually are the eyes of Yahweh thy God upon it, from the beginning of the year, even unto the end of the year.

2 Kings 18:9And it came to pass, in the fourth year of King Hezekiah—the same, was the seventh year of Hosea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and laid siege against it;

2 Kings 24:11And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants were about to besiege it.

Proverbs 12:10A righteous man, regardeth the desire of his beast, but, the compassions of the lawless, 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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