Isaiah 36:17

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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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
come	בֹּאִ֕י bo.'I	H935	to go or come (in a wide variety of applications) · verb, qal infinitive construct + pronominal suffix
away	וְלָקַחְתִּ֥י ve.la.kach.Ti	H3947	to take (in the widest variety of applications) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential perfect, 1st person common singular
land	אֶ֣רֶץ 'E.retz	H776	the earth (at large · noun, common feminine singular absolute
land	כְּאַרְצְכֶ֑ם ke.'ar.tze.Khem	H776	the earth (at large · preposition + noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine plural
land	אֶ֤רֶץ 'E.retz	H776	the earth (at large · noun, common feminine singular construct
corn	דָּגָן֙ da.Gan	H1715	properly · noun, common masculine singular absolute
wine	וְתִיר֔וֹשׁ ve.ti.Ro.osh	H8492	must or fresh grape-juice (as just squeezed out) · conjunction + noun, common masculine singular absolute
land	אֶ֥רֶץ 'E.retz	H776	the earth (at large · noun, common feminine singular construct
bread	לֶ֖חֶם Le.chem	H3899	food (for man or beast) · noun, common masculine singular absolute
vineyards	וּכְרָמִֽים u.khe.ra.Mim	H3754	a garden or vineyard · conjunction + noun, common masculine plural absolute

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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…
Exodus 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, unt…
Deuteronomy 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…
Deuteronomy 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…
2 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…
2 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 k…
2 Kings 24:11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it.
Job 20:17 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 36:11–end

We may hence learn these lessons: - 1. That, while princes and counsellors have public matters under debate, it is not fair to appeal to the people. It was a reasonable motion which Hezekiah's plenipotentiaries made, that this parley should be held in a language which the people did not understand (Isa 36:11), because reasons of state are secret things and ought to be kept secret, the vulgar being incompetent judges of them. It is therefore an unfair practice, and not doing as men would be done by, to incense subjects against their rulers by base insinuations. 2. Proud and haughty scorners, the fairer they are spoken to, commonly speak the fouler. Nothing could be said more mildly and respec…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 36:16

agreement . . . by . . . present--rather, "make peace with me"; literally, "blessing" so called from the mutual congratulations attending the ratification of peace. So Chaldee. Or else, "Do homage to me" [HORSLEY]. come out--surrender to me; then you may remain in quiet possession of your lands till my return from Egypt, when I will lead you away to a land fruitful as your own. Rab-shakeh tries to soften, in the eyes of the Jews, the well-known Assyrian policy of weakening the vanquished by deporting them to other lands (Gen 47:21; Kg2 17:6).

John Gill on Isaiah 36:17

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). Rabshakeh names no land, nor could he name any like, or equal to, the land of Canaan; he could not conceal his intention to remove them from their own land to another; this having been always done by the king of Assyria to people conquered by him, and as was usual for conquerors to do, that so the conquered might have no expectation or opportunity of recovering their own land: a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards; c…

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The Church Fathers

(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. Some think that the land of Media is promised to them, which had a similarity to the land of Judaea, both in location and in crops. And this is what he brings up.
— Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah

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Dictionary and topics

Hezekiah — Whom Jehovah has strengthened. (1.) Son of Ahaz (2 Kings 18:1; 2 Chr. 29:1), whom he succeeded on the throne of the kingdom of Judah. He reigned twenty-nine years (B.C. 726-697). The history of this…
Isaiah — (Heb. Yesh’yahu, i.e., “the salvation of Jehovah”). (1.) The son of Amoz (Isa. 1:1; 2:1), who was apparently a man of humble rank. His wife was called “the prophetess” (8:3), either because she was…
Sennacherib — Sin (the god) sends many brothers, son of Sargon, whom he succeeded on the throne of Assyria (B.C. 705), in the 23rd year of Hezekiah. “Like the Persian Xerxes, he was weak and vainglorious, cowardly…
Wine — The common Hebrew word for wine is yayin, from a root meaning “to boil up,” “to be in a ferment.” Others derive it from a root meaning “to tread out,” and hence the juice of the grape trodden out.…
Assyria · Productiveness of — Productiveness of
Diplomacy · harangue — harangue
Wine · Places celebrated for: Assyria — Places celebrated for: Assyria

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Isaiah 36:17

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 36:11–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 36:16

John Gill on Isaiah 36:17

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Isaiah 36:17

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 36:11–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 36:16

John Gill on Isaiah 36:17

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Isaiah 36:17

Keil & Delitzsch on Isaiah 36:13-20

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Isaiah 36:16-17

Rashi on Isaiah 36:17