31 Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria: ‘Make your peace with me[a] and come out to me. Then (A)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, (B)a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and (C)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 (D)Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 18:31 Hebrew Make a blessing with me

31 “Do not listen to Hezekiah. This is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then each of you will eat fruit from your own vine and fig tree(A) and drink water from your own cistern,(B) 32 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, a land of olive trees and honey. Choose life(C) and not death!

“Do not listen to Hezekiah, for he is misleading you when he says, ‘The Lord will deliver us.’ 33 Has the god(D) of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?

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