2 Kings 18:32

until I come and take you Submission was to be followed, as was usual with Assyria, by deportation, but the people are promised a land as good as their own. For the similar description of the land of Canaan see Deuteronomy 8:7-9.

and not die Again he refers, as to an argument likely to be most powerful, to the famine which was imminent if the siege continued.