2 Kings 19:34
New International Version
I will defend this city and save it, for my sake and for the sake of David my servant.’”

New Living Translation
For my own honor and for the sake of my servant David, I will defend this city and protect it.”

English Standard Version
For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.”

Berean Standard Bible
‘I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.’ ”

King James Bible
For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

New King James Version
‘For I will defend this city, to save it For My own sake and for My servant David’s sake.’ ”

New American Standard Bible
‘For I will protect this city to save it for My own sake, and for My servant David’s sake.’”

NASB 1995
‘For I will defend this city to save it for My own sake and for My servant David’s sake.’”

NASB 1977
‘For I will defend this city to save it for My own sake and for My servant David’s sake.’”

Legacy Standard Bible
‘Indeed I will defend this city to save it for My own sake and for My servant David’s sake.’”

Amplified Bible
‘For I will protect this city to save it, for My own sake and for My servant David’s sake.’”

Christian Standard Bible
I will defend this city and rescue it for my sake and for the sake of my servant David.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I will defend this city and rescue it for My sake and for the sake of My servant David.”

American Standard Version
For I will defend this city to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And I shall dwell upon this city and I shall save it for my sake and for the sake of David my Servant.”

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And I will defend this city as with a shield, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

Contemporary English Version
I will protect it for myself and for my servant David.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will protect this city, and will save it for my own sake, and for David my servant's sake.

English Revised Version
For I will defend this city to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"I will shield this city to rescue it for my sake and for the sake of my servant David."

Good News Translation
I will defend this city and protect it, for the sake of my own honor and because of the promise I made to my servant David.'"

International Standard Version
I will defend this city and preserve it for my own reasons, and because of my servant David.'"

JPS Tanakh 1917
For I will defend this city to save it, for Mine own sake, and for My servant David's sake.'

Literal Standard Version
And I have covered over this city, | To save it for My own sake, | And for the sake of My servant David.”

Majority Standard Bible
‘I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”

New American Bible
I will shield and save this city for my own sake and the sake of David my servant.”

NET Bible
I will shield this city and rescue it for the sake of my reputation and because of my promise to David my servant.'"

New Revised Standard Version
For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.”

New Heart English Bible
'For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.'"

Webster's Bible Translation
For I will defend this city, to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

World English Bible
‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for my servant David’s sake.’”

Young's Literal Translation
And I have covered over this city, To save it, for Mine own sake, And for the sake of David My servant.'

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Context
The Fall of Sennacherib Prophesied
33He will go back the way he came, and he will not enter this city,’ declares the LORD. 34‘I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”

Cross References
1 Kings 11:12
Nevertheless, for the sake of your father David, I will not do it during your lifetime; I will tear it out of the hand of your son.

1 Kings 11:13
Yet I will not tear the whole kingdom away from him. I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen."

2 Kings 20:6
I 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 31:5
Like birds hovering overhead, so the LORD of Hosts will protect Jerusalem. He will shield it and deliver it; He will pass over it and preserve it."


Treasury of Scripture

For I will defend this city, to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

I will defend.

2 Kings 20:6
And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

Psalm 46:5,6
God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early…

Psalm 48:2-8
Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King…

for mine.

Deuteronomy 32:27
Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.

Isaiah 43:25
I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.

Isaiah 48:9,11
For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off…

my servant.

1 Kings 19:11,12,13
And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake: …

1 Kings 15:4
Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:

Isaiah 9:7
Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

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2 Kings 19
1. Hezekiah, in mourning, sends to Isaiah to pray for them.
6. Isaiah comforts them.
8. Sennacherib, going to encounter Tirhakah, sends a blasphemous letter to Hezekiah.
14. Hezekiah's prayer.
20. Isaiah's prophecy of the destruction of Sennacherib, and the good of Zion.
35. An angel slays the Assyrians.
36. Sennacherib is slain by his own sons.














(34) For I will defend.--And I will cover (with a shield). (Comp. Isaiah 31:5; Isaiah 38:6; 2Kings 20:6.)

For my servant David's sake.--See 1Kings 11:12-13, and the promise in 2 Samuel 7.

Verse 34. - For I will defend this city, to save it - not merely with a view of saving it, but in such sort as effectually to save it - for mine own sake - i.e., because my own honor is concerned in its preservation, especially after the taunts of Sennacherib (2 Kings 18:32-35; 2 Kings 19:10-13) - and for my servant David's sake. Not so much on account of the promises made to David, as on account of the love which God bore towards him for his faithfulness and earnest devotion.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
I will defend
וְגַנּוֹתִ֛י (wə·ḡan·nō·w·ṯî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 1598: To cover, surround, defend

this
הַזֹּ֖את (haz·zōṯ)
Article | Pronoun - feminine singular
Strong's 2063: Hereby in it, likewise, the one other, same, she, so much, such deed, that,

city
הָעִ֥יר (hā·‘îr)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5892: Excitement

and rescue it
לְהֽוֹשִׁיעָ֑הּ (lə·hō·wō·šî·‘āh)
Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 3467: To be open, wide, free, to be safe, to free, succor

for My own sake
לְמַֽעֲנִ֔י (lə·ma·‘ă·nî)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's 4616: Purpose -- intent

and for the sake of
וּלְמַ֖עַן (ū·lə·ma·‘an)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition
Strong's 4616: Purpose -- intent

My servant
עַבְדִּֽי׃ (‘aḇ·dî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 5650: Slave, servant

David.’”
דָּוִ֥ד (dā·wiḏ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 1732: David -- perhaps 'beloved one', a son of Jesse


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