II Kings 18

"Make your peace with me and come out to me, and eat each of his vine and each of his fig tree" (v31). Hezekiah, king of Judah, was trying to resist the mighty Assyrian empire which had already overrun northern Israel. But the Assyrian envoys were persuasive; they came to threaten Judah and also to tempt her people. Rather than being destroyed by a siege or battle, they promised, simply surrender, and you will find peace.

We are tempted by the same argument: Surrender, and life will be easier or better. But King Hezekiah "clung to the Lord" (v6).