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 of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.
Ver. 32. To a land like your own land.] Which was a land that God himself had "espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands." Eze 20:6 Sumen totius orbis, in quo saxa durissima mel et oleum sudabant Deu 32:13 Exo 3:17 This Rabshakeh here acknowledgeth, and is therein more ingenuous than Strabo the geographer (strabus et pravus nimium), who traduceth Judea for dry and barren, nec satis dignam de qua magnopere pugnetur, not worth striving for. a
And hearken not unto Hezekiah.] This is a string that he much harpeth upon. It is our faith that Satan chiefly striketh at; Luk 22:32 hold fast this shield. Eph 6:16
a Tacitus uber solum Iudaeis attribuit.