2 Kings 20:6
Good News Translation
I will let you live fifteen years longer. I will rescue you and this city Jerusalem from the emperor of Assyria. I will defend this city, for the sake of my own honor and because of the promise I made to my servant David."

New Revised Standard Version
I will add fifteen years to your life. I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; I will defend this city for my own sake and for my servant David’s sake.”

Contemporary English Version
I will let you live 15 years more, while I protect you and your city from the king of Assyria. I will defend this city as an honor to me and to my servant David.

New American Bible
I will add to your life fifteen years. I will rescue you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; I will be a shield to this city for my own sake and the sake of David my servant.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will add to thy days fifteen years: and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians, and I will protect this city for my own sake, and for David, my servant's sake.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I will add to thy days fifteen years: and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians, and I will protect this city for my own sake, and for David, my servant's sake.

I will add.

Psalm 116:15 Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.

Acts 27:24 Saying: Fear not, Paul, thou must be brought before Caesar; and behold, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.

I will defend.

2 Kings 19:34 And I will protect this city, and will save it for my own sake, and for David, my servant's sake.

2 Chronicles 32:22 And the Lord saved Ezechias and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of the hand of Sennacherib king of the Assyrians, and out of the hand of all, and gave them treasures on every side.

Isaiah 10:24 Therefore, thus saith the Lord the God of hosts: O my people that dwellest in Sion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall strike thee with his rod, and he shall lift up his staff over thee in the way of Egypt.

Context
Hezekiah's Illness and Recovery
5Go back, and tell Ezechias, the captain of my people: Thus saith the Lord, the God of David, thy father: I have heard thy prayer, and I have seen thy tears: and behold I have healed thee: on the third day thou shalt go up to the temple of the Lord. 6And I will add to thy days fifteen years: and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians, and I will protect this city for my own sake, and for David, my servant's sake.7And Isaias said: Bring me a lump of figs. And when they had brought it, and laid it upon his boil, he was healed.…
Cross References
2 Kings 19:34
And I will protect this city, and will save it for my own sake, and for David, my servant's sake.

2 Kings 20:7
And Isaias said: Bring me a lump of figs. And when they had brought it, and laid it upon his boil, he was healed.

Isaiah 37:35
And I will protect this city, and will save it for my own sake, and for the sake of David my servant.

2 Kings 20:5
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