Text: 2 Kings 18:32
OT Text Referred to: Deuteronomy 8:7
Subject: good land
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme
Significance: The Rabshakeh's description of the deportation land in 2 Kings 18:32 — "a land of grain and new wine" — echoes Moses' description of the promised land in Deuteronomy 8:7 as "a good land" (אֶרֶץ טוֹבָה, 'erets tovah) flowing with agricultural abundance. By appropriating Deuteronomic land-promise language for Assyrian propaganda, the Rabshakeh implicitly claims that Assyria can offer what Yahweh offered — a rhetorical blasphemy. The allusion forces the hearers to choose between the genuine divine promise (Deuteronomy) and the imperial counterfeit (Assyria), making the siege a theological as well as military crisis.