Though the enemy is going to be taken away God instructs Hezekiah that Judah will have to wait three years before it will be the right time to sow the fields and get a harvest. Yet God had promised that the nation would be able to survive on what grows wild in the land. It seems that, if the enemy has gone away, the time to plant fields would be as soon as you can, but God has instructed Hezekiah to do otherwise. We aren't told why and there are reasons that people with more expertise in horticulture in the Middle East might be able to tell, but that doesn't matter. To me, it is a reminder that God brings deliverance but it doesn't always go the way we would expect it or at all in our time.
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