³² until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, ^(A)a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive groves and honey, that you may live and not die. But do not listen to Hezekiah, lest he persuade you, saying, “The Lord will deliver us.”

⁷ For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, ^(A)a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills; ⁸ a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey; ⁹ a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper.

¹² a land for which the Lord your God cares; ^(A)the eyes of the Lord your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the very end of the year.

⁸ So ^(A)I have come down to ^(B)deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land ^(C)to a good and large land, to a land ^(D)flowing with milk and honey, to the place of ^(E)the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.

¹¹ Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive ^(A)the rest of the people who remained in the city and the defectors who had deserted to the king of Babylon, with the rest of the multitude.

¹⁴ Also ^(A)he carried into captivity all Jerusalem: all the captains and all the mighty men of valor, ^(B)ten thousand captives, and ^(C)all the craftsmen and smiths. None remained except ^(D)the poorest people of the land. ¹⁵ And ^(E)he carried Jehoiachin captive to Babylon. The king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officers, and the mighty of the land he carried into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon. ^16 (F)All the valiant men, seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths, one thousand, all who were strong and fit for war, these the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.

^11 (A)Then the king of Assyria carried Israel away captive to Assyria, and put them ^(B)in Halah and by the Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,

²³ until the Lord removed Israel out of His sight, ^(A)as He had said by all His servants the prophets. ^(B)So Israel was carried away from their own land to Assyria, as it is to this day.

^6 (A)In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria and ^(B)carried Israel away to Assyria, ^(C)and placed them in Halah and by the Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.