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Isaiah 37:35
35“I will defend this city and save it, for my sake and for the sake of David my servant!”
Isaiah 37:35 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David."
- New King James Version (NKJV)‘For I will defend this city, to save it For My own sake and for My servant David’s sake.’ ”
- New Living Translation (NLT)‘For my own honor and for the sake of my servant David, I will defend this city and protect it.’”
Context of Isaiah 37:35
33“Therefore this is what the Lord says concerning the king of Assyria: “He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow here. He will not come before it with shield or build a siege ramp against it. 34By the way that he came he will return; he will not enter this city,” declares the Lord. “I will defend this city and save it, for my sake and for the sake of David my servant!” 36Then the angel of the Lord went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies! 37So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.
Read all of Isaiah 37Isaiah 37:35 word by word
וְגַנּוֹתִ֛י עַל־הָעִ֥יר הַזֹּ֖את לְהֽוֹשִׁיעָ֑הּ לְמַֽעֲנִ֔י וּלְמַ֖עַן דָּוִ֥ד עַבְדִּֽי׃ סRead the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Isaiah 37:35
- Isaiah 31:5Like birds hovering overhead, the Lord Almighty will shield Jerusalem; he will shield it and deliver it, he will ‘pass over’ it and will rescue it.”
- Isaiah 38:6And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.
- 2 Kings 20:6I will add fifteen years to your life. And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for my sake and for the sake of my servant David.’ ”
- Isaiah 43:25“I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more.
- Isaiah 58:9Then you will call, and the Lord will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I. “If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious talk,
- Deuteronomy 32:27but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest the adversary misunderstand and say, ‘Our hand has triumphed; the Lord has not done all this.’ ”
- Ezekiel 20:9But for the sake of my name, I brought them out of Egypt. I did it to keep my name from being profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they lived and in whose sight I had revealed myself to the Israelites.
- Ezekiel 36:22“Therefore say to the Israelites, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: It is not for your sake, people of Israel, that I am going to do these things, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you have gone.
- Ephesians 1:6to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.
- 1 Kings 11:12Nevertheless, for the sake of David your father, I will not do it during your lifetime. I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
- 1 Kings 15:4Nevertheless, for David’s sake the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem by raising up a son to succeed him and by making Jerusalem strong.
- Jeremiah 23:5“The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, a King who will reign wisely and do what is just and right in the land.
- Jeremiah 30:9Instead, they will serve the Lord their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.
- Jeremiah 33:15“ ‘In those days and at that time I will make a righteous Branch sprout from David’s line; he will do what is just and right in the land.
- Ezekiel 37:24“ ‘My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd. They will follow my laws and be careful to keep my decrees.
Commentaries on Isaiah 37:35
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 35For I will defend this city - Notwithstanding all that Hezekiah had done to put it in a posture of defense (2 Chronicles 32:1, following) still it was Yahweh alone who could preserve it. For mine own sake - God had been reproached and blasphemed by Sennacherib. As his name and power had been thus blasphemed, he says that he would vindicate himself, and for the honor of his own insulted majesty would save the city. And for my servant David‘s sake - On…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 35for the sake of My servant David: God had made a promise to David. He said that David’s royal family would continue forever (see Isaiah 9:6–7; 2 Samuel 7:8–17).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3535. I will defend--Notwithstanding Hezekiah's measures of defense (2Ch 32:3-5), Jehovah was its true defender. mine own sake--since Jehovah's name was blasphemed by Sennacherib (Is 37:23). David's sake--on account of His promise to David (Psa 132:17, 18), and to Messiah, the heir of David's throne (Is 9:7; 11:1).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Isaiah 37
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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