God’s Word Translation
Isaiah 36:17
17Then I will come and take you away to a country like your own. It’s a country with grain and new wine, a country with bread and vineyards.
Isaiah 36:17 in other versions
- King James Version (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.
- New International Version (NIV)until I come and take you to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
- English Standard Version (ESV)until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
- New King James Version (NKJV)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.
Context of Isaiah 36:17
15Don’t let Hezekiah get you to trust the Lord by saying, ‘The Lord will certainly rescue us, and this city will not be put under the control of the king of Assyria.’ 16Don’t listen to Hezekiah, because this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me! Come out, and give yourselves up to me! Everyone will eat from his own grapevine and fig tree and drink from his own cistern. Then I will come and take you away to a country like your own. It’s a country with grain and new wine, a country with bread and vineyards. 18Don’t let Hezekiah mislead you by saying to you, ‘The Lord will rescue us.’ Did any of the gods of the nations rescue their countries from the king of Assyria? 19Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Did they rescue Samaria from my control?
Read all of Isaiah 36Isaiah 36:17 word by word
עַד־בֹּאִ֕י וְלָקַחְתִּ֥י אֶתְכֶ֖ם אֶל־אֶ֣רֶץ כְּאַרְצְכֶ֑ם אֶ֤רֶץ דָּגָן֙ וְתִיר֔וֹשׁ אֶ֥רֶץ לֶ֖חֶם וּכְרָמִֽים׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- Until I comeבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): comeH935
- and take you awayלָקַחlâqach · to take: takeH3947
- to a landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
- of cornדָּגָןdâgân · grainH1715
- and wineתִּירוֹשׁtîyrôsh tîyrôsh · new wineH8492
- of breadלֶ֫חֶםlechem · food: breadH3899
- and vineyardsכֶּרֶםkerem · vineyardH3754
Cross-references for Isaiah 36:17
- 2 Kings 17:6In Hoshea’s ninth year as king of Israel, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and took the Israelites to Assyria as captives. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor River in Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
- 2 Kings 18:9In Hezekiah’s fourth year as king (which was the seventh year in the reign of King Hoshea, son of Elah of Israel) King Shalmaneser of Assyria attacked Samaria, blockaded it,
- 2 Kings 24:11King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon arrived while his officers were blockading the city.
- Proverbs 12:10A righteous person cares ⌞even⌟ about the life of his animals, but the compassion of wicked people is ⌞nothing but⌟ cruelty.
- Exodus 3:8I have come to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and to bring them from that land to a good land with plenty of room ⌞for everyone⌟. It is a land flowing with milk and honey where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites live.
- Deuteronomy 8:7The Lord your God is bringing you into a good land. It is a land with rivers that don’t dry up. There are springs and underground streams flowing through the valleys and hills.
- Deuteronomy 11:12It is a land the Lord your God cares about. He watches over it all year long.
- Job 20:17He won’t be able to drink from the streams or from the rivers of honey and buttermilk.
Commentaries on Isaiah 36:17
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 17And vineyards - The other copy, 2 Kings 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."Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 17Until 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 Isaiah 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…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 16-17The Assyrian tried to lure the people of Jerusalem with supplies that the Lord promised to give to his obedient followers (see Isaiah 1:19; 37:30–35; Deuteronomy 8:7–9). It was a tempting offer, but it was fake. It hid the truth of the exile that would have come after (Isaiah 36:17).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-22This and the thirty-seventh through thirty-ninth chapters form the historical appendix closing the first division of Isaiah's prophecies, and were added to make the parts of these referring to Assyria more intelligible. So Jr 52:1-34; compare 2Ki 25:1-30. The section occurs almost word for word (2Ki 18:13, 17-20; 19:1-37); 2Ki 18:14-16, however, is additional matter. Hezekiah's "writing" also is in Isaiah, not in Kings (Is 38:9-20). We know from 2Ch 32:32…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Isaiah 36
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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