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2 Kings 18:32

in 2 Kings 18

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, 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.’

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

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, a land of olive-trees and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, Jehovah will deliver us.

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, 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.

This verse in 2 Kings 18

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Ephrem the Syrian

ON THE SECOND BOOK OF KINGS 18:19 · Written before 373.

As I have already said, Sennacherib is a type of the devil, and this hypothesis is perfectly confirmed by the words that in this passage the Rabshakeh boastfully speaks against God when he makes false promises to the people, trying to take away from [God] …

This site's exposition

cried with a loud voice

on 2 Kings 18:28-32

Rab-shakeh abandons diplomacy and shouts in the Jews' own language over the officials' heads, straight to the men on the wall, urging them to make an agreement, a pledge of surrender, and trade the siege for an ordinary harvest, his own vine, his own fig tree, his own cistern. The offer is a lie dressed as mercy: verse 32 admits the real plan is deportation, a land like your own land, the standard Assyrian policy of resettlement already carried out on Israel in verse 11. Let not Hezekiah deceive you and hearken not unto Hezekiah frame the whole appeal as a contest for the people's loyalty, king against invader, fought in words before either army moves.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

This Rabshakeh was sensible was their great stay, and therefore he was most large in his endeavours to shake this, as David's enemies, who used all the arts they had to drive him from his confidence in God ( Ps. iii. 1 ), and thus did Christ's enemies, Matt. xxvii.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

His great piety, which was the more wonderful because his father was very wicked and vile, one of the worst of the kings, yet he was one of the best, which may intimate to us that what good there is in any is not of nature, but of grace, free grace, sovereign grace, which, contrary to nature, grafts into the good olive that which was wild by nature ( Rom. xi.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Until I come and take you away - This was well calculated to stir up a seditious spirit. Ye cannot be delivered; your destruction, if ye resist, is inevitable; Sennacherib will do with you, as he does with all the nations he conquers, lead you captive into another land: but if you will surrender without farther trouble, he will transport you into a land as good as your own.

The words behind it

30 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • עַד־until

    ʾad-H57041261 times

  • בֹּאִי֩come I

    boiH9352568 times

  • וְלָקַחְתִּ֨יand I will take

    velakachtiH3947966 times

  • אֶתְכֶ֜ם<obj.> you

    ʾetkhemH85310935 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H4135510 times

  • אֶ֣רֶץa land

    ʾeretzH7762504 times

  • כְּאַרְצְכֶ֗םlike own land your

    keartzekhemH7762504 times

  • אֶרֶץ֩a land of

    ʾeretzH7762504 times

  • דָּגָ֨ןgrain

    daganH1715

  • וְתִיר֜וֹשׁand new wine

    vetirooshH8492

  • אֶ֧רֶץa land of

    ʾeretzH7762504 times

  • לֶ֣חֶםbread

    lechemH3899298 times

  • וּכְרָמִ֗יםand vineyards

    ukheramimH375492 times

  • אֶ֣רֶץa land of

    ʾeretzH7762504 times

  • זֵ֤יתolive tree of

    zeitH2132

  • יִצְהָר֙fresh oil

    yitzharH3323

  • וּדְבַ֔שׁand honey

    udevashH1706

  • וִֽחְי֖וּand live

    vichyuH2421282 times

  • וְלֹ֣אand not

    velo'H38085168 times

  • תָמֻ֑תוּyou will die

    tamutuH4191839 times

  • וְאַֽל־and may not

    veal-H408724 times

  • תִּשְׁמְעוּ֙you listen

    tishmeuH80851159 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H4135510 times

  • חִזְקִיָּ֔הוּHezekiah

    chizkiyahuH2396127 times

  • כִּֽי־for

    ki-H35884482 times

  • יַסִּ֤יתhe misleads

    yasitH5496

  • אֶתְכֶם֙<obj.> you

    ʾetkhemH85310935 times

  • לֵאמֹ֔ר<to> saying

    lemorH5595305 times

  • יְהוָ֖הYahweh

    yahwehH30686520 times

  • יַצִּילֵֽנוּ׃he will deliver us

    yatzilenuH5337212 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Exodus 3:8

    I 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…

    it leads to

    • Genesis 50:24

      Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely visit you and bring you up from this land to the land He promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac,…

    • Exodus 3:17

      And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’

    • Genesis 15:18–21

      On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—

    • Exodus 13:5

      And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites—the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you, a land flowing with milk and…

    • Deuteronomy 1:25

      They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands, carried it down to us, and brought us word: “It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us.”

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 11:12

    It 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.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 24:6

      I will keep My eyes on them for good and will return them to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not uproot them.

    • Psalms 33:18

      Surely the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear Him, on those whose hope is in His loving devotion

    • 1 Kings 9:3

      And the LORD said to him: “I have heard your prayer and petition before Me. I have consecrated this temple you have built by putting My Name there forever; My eyes and My heart…

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Kings

Elijah Ascends to Heaven in a Chariot of Fire, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Elijah Ascends to Heaven in a Chariot of Fire, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Ephrem the Syrian, ON THE SECOND BOOK OF KINGS 18:19; Keil, The Books of the Kings and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.