Isaiah 36:17

“Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, &c.]. Some have thought, as Jerom observes, that the land of Media was meant, which bore some likeness to the land of Judea in situation and fruitfulness. Maimonides thinks that Africa is intendedf690. Rabshakeh names no land, nor could he name any like, or equal to, the land of Canaan; he could not conceal his intention to remove them from their own land to another; this having been always done by the king of Assyria to people conquered by him, and as was usual for conquerors to do, that so the conquered might have no expectation or opportunity of recovering their own land: a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards;…”

“Until 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 vanquished people from their own country. They did this either by sending them forth in colonies to people some unsettled region, or by removing the body of them to the land of the conqueror. This was done for various purposes. It was sometimes to…”

“I come: 2Kings 17:6-23, Kg2 18:9-12, Kg2 24:11; Pro 12:10 a land of corn: Exo 3:8; Deu 8:7-9, Deu 11:12; Job 20:17; The other copy in Kg2 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. Isaiah 36:18”