2 Kings 18:32

32 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, ¹a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and ²honey, that you may live, and not die. And do not listen to Hezekiah when he misleads you by saying, “The Lord will deliver us. ”

2 Kings 18:32 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 18:32

(See Gill on 2 Kings 18:17)

2 Kings 18:32 In-Context

30 Do not let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord by saying, The Lord will surely deliver us, and this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. ’

31 Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria: ‘Make your peace with me and come out to me. Then each one of you will eat of his own vine, and each one of his own fig tree, and each one of you will drink the water of his own cistern,

32 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, a land of olive trees and honey, that you may live, and not die. And do not listen to Hezekiah when he misleads you by saying, “The Lord will deliver us. ”

33 Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

34 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

Cross References

• 1. 18:32 Deut. 8:7, 8
• 2. 18:32 See Ex. 3:8