Isaiah 36:17
15 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
16 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;
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.
18 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- ASV
- 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.
- DARBY
- 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.
- BLB
- until I come and take you⁺ to a land like your⁺ own land—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
- ÅB
- til jeg kommer og henter dere til et land som ligner deres land, et land med korn og most, et land med brød og vingårder.
- OTB
- inntil jeg kommer og tar dere til et land som deres eget, et land med korn og ny vin, et land med brød og vingårder.
- B1930
- til jeg kommer og henter eder til et land som ligner eders land, et land med korn og most, et land med brød og vingårder.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Kings 18:32
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, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.
Read in context2 Kings 17:6–23
In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
Read in context2 Kings 24:11
And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it.
Read in context2 Kings 18:9–12
And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
Read in contextExodus 3:8
And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 8:7–9
For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;
Read in contextJob 20:17
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 11:12
A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.
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