Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;
Make (an agreement) with me (by) a present - `Make peace with me;' literally, blessing, Hebrew, berakah; so called from the mutual congratulations attending the ratification of peace. So the Chaldaic. Or else, 'Do homage to me' (Horsley).
Come out to me - surrender to me; then you may remain in quiet possession of our lands until my return from Egypt, when I will lead you away to a land fruitful as your own. Rabshakeh tries to soften, in the eyes of the Jews, the well-known Assyrian policy of weakening the vanquished by deporting them to other lands. Compare the Egyptian policy, Genesis 47:21, with the Assyrian, 2 Kings 17:6.