Isaiah 36:17
in Isaiah 36until 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.
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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.
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.
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This verse in Isaiah 36
Commentary
8 notes on this verse(Vers. 17) Until I come and take you to a land, which is like your own land: a land of wheat and wine, a land of bread and vineyards. Later, however, I will come and lead you to a land that is similar to your land, with wheat, wine, and oil. It does not mention the name of the region, because it could not find an equivalent land promise: but it promises similarity. For each person desires what they were born into.
This site's exposition
stood and called out loudly in Hebrew
on Isaiah 36:13-17
Rabshakeh does the very thing he was asked to avoid and calls out in Hebrew so the whole wall can hear. His appeal is material, Make peace with me and come out to me. The offer ends in exile dressed as prosperity, a land of grain and new wine.
This site's exposition
a land like your own
The land of grain and new wine means deportation, a common practice of conquerors in that age. Jerome notes the offer names no country, only a likeness. Israel's exiles from Samaria had already been taken to the cities of the Medes at 2 Kings 17:6.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
Then Rabsaces stood, and cried out with a loud voice in the Jews' language. Here his address to the people is set out. And first, his foolish words are set out, in which he frightens them with threats: he shall not be able to deliver …
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land,..... Some have thought, as Jerom observes, that the land of Media was meant, which bore some likeness to the land of Judea in situation and fruitfulness. Maimonides thinks that Africa is intended (l).
The history related here, and in the three following chapters, is, almost in the same words contained 2 Kings 18, 19, 20. It is inserted here, to explain and confirm some of the foregoing predictions.
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Until I come - These are the words of the king of Assyria delivered by Rabshakeh. It was proposed that they should remain safely in Jerusalem until Sennacherib should himself come and remove them to his own land. He was now engaged in the siege of Lachish Isa 36:2, and it is probable that he purposed to take some other of the unsubdued towns in that part of Palestine. And take you away - It was common for conquerors in ancient times to remove a vanquished people from their own country.
And vineyards - The other copy, 2Ki 18:32, adds here: “A land of oil-olive, and of honey; that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah when he seduceth you.”
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
Make peace with me (בְרָכָה, lit., a blessing.) Come out to me for peace and greet me and bring me a gift of peace.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 6 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
13 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| עַד־ | ʾad- | until | H5704 → | 1261 times |
| בֹּאִ֕י | boi | come I | H935 → | 2568 times |
| וְלָקַחְתִּ֥י | velakachti | and I will take | H3947 → | 966 times |
| אֶתְכֶ֖ם | ʾetkhem | <obj.> you | H853 → | 10935 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| אֶ֣רֶץ | ʾeretz | a land | H776 → | 2504 times |
| כְּאַרְצְכֶ֑ם | keartzekhem | like own land your | H776 → | 2504 times |
| אֶ֤רֶץ | ʾeretz | a land of | H776 → | 2504 times |
| דָּגָן֙ | dagan | grain | H1715 → | |
| וְתִיר֔וֹשׁ | vetiroosh | and new wine | H8492 → | 38 times |
| אֶ֥רֶץ | ʾeretz | a land of | H776 → | 2504 times |
| לֶ֖חֶם | lechem | bread | H3899 → | 298 times |
| וּכְרָמִֽים׃ | ukheramim | and vineyards | H3754 → | 92 times |
עַד־until
ʾad-H5704 →1261 times
בֹּאִ֕יcome I
boiH935 →2568 times
וְלָקַחְתִּ֥יand I will take
velakachtiH3947 →966 times
אֶתְכֶ֖ם<obj.> you
ʾetkhemH853 →10935 times
אֶל־to
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
אֶ֣רֶץa land
ʾeretzH776 →2504 times
כְּאַרְצְכֶ֑םlike own land your
keartzekhemH776 →2504 times
אֶ֤רֶץa land of
ʾeretzH776 →2504 times
דָּגָן֙grain
daganH1715 →
וְתִיר֔וֹשׁand new wine
vetirooshH8492 →38 times
אֶ֥רֶץa land of
ʾeretzH776 →2504 times
לֶ֖חֶםbread
lechemH3899 →298 times
וּכְרָמִֽים׃and vineyards
ukheramimH3754 →92 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
Proverbs 12:10A righteous man regards the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are only cruelty.
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 25:4
Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.
- Genesis 33:13–14
But Jacob replied, “My lord knows that the children are frail, and I must care for sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard for even a day, all…
- Numbers 22:28–32
Then the LORD opened the donkey’s mouth, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you that you have beaten me these three times?”
- Deuteronomy 25:4
Through
2 Kings 18:32until 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…
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 8:7–9
For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills;
- 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.
- 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…
- Deuteronomy 8:7–9
Through
Job 20:17He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream.
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 32:13–14
He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him the produce of the field. He nourished him with honey from the rock and oil from the flinty crag,
- Job 29:6
when my steps were bathed in cream and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!
- Deuteronomy 32:13–14
Where this verse is studied
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About Isaiah
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Franz Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Isaiah; Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Isaiah.