‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’ ”
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‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’ ”
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For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.
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For I will defend this city to save it, for Mine own sake, and for My servant David's sake.'
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Passages linked to Isaiah 37:35 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 2 Kings 20:6 I will add to your days fifteen years. 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.” ’ ”
- Isaiah 38:6 I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city.
- Isaiah 31:5 As birds hovering, so Yahweh of Armies will protect Jerusalem. He will protect and deliver it. He will pass over and preserve it.”
- Isaiah 43:25 I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
- Jeremiah 23:5-6 “Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he will reign as king and deal wisely, and will execute justice and righteousness in the land. In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely. This is his name by which he will be called: Yahweh our righteousness.
- Jeremiah 33:15-16 “In those days and at that time, I will cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up to David. He will execute justice and righteousness in the land. In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell safely. This is the name by which she will be called: Yahweh our righteousness.”
- Ephesians 1:14 who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.
- Jeremiah 30:9 but they will serve Yahweh their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them.
- Ezekiel 37:24-25 “ ‘ “My servant David will be king over them. They all will have one shepherd. They will also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them. They will dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which your fathers lived. They will dwell therein, they, and their children, and their children’s children, forever. David my servant will be their prince forever.
- Deuteronomy 32:27 were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, ‘Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.’ ”
- 1 Kings 11:36 I will give one tribe to his son, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.
- 1 Kings 15:4 Nevertheless for David’s sake, Yahweh his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem;
- Isaiah 48:9-11 For my name’s sake, I will defer my anger, and for my praise, I hold it back for you so that I don’t cut you off. Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver. I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction. For my own sake, for my own sake, I will do it; for how would my name be profaned? I will not give my glory to another.
- Ezekiel 20:9 But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, among which they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
- Ezekiel 36:22 “Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “I don’t do this for your sake, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you went.
- Ephesians 1:6 to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,
- 1 Kings 11:12-13 Nevertheless, I will not do it in your days, for David your father’s sake; but I will tear it out of your son’s hand. However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain For my promise sake made to David.
For my promise sake made to David.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went, and…
So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went, and returned,.... Being informed of the destruction of his army in this miraculous manner, he departed from the place where he was in all haste, fearing lest he himself should be destroyed in like manner; and having no forces to pursue his designs, or wherewith to make an attempt elsewhere, he made the best of his way at once into his own country, whither he returned with great shame and confusion:
and dwelt at Nineveh; the metropolis of his kingdom; see Gen 10:11.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain For I will defend this city - Notwithstanding all…
For I will defend this city - Notwithstanding all that Hezekiah had done to put it in a posture of defense (2Ch 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.
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And for my servant David’s sake - On account of the promise which he had made to him that there should not fail a man to sit on his throne, and that the city and nation should not be destroyed until the Messiah should appear (see Psa 132:10-18).
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Servant. Hence it plainly appears that God protects the…
Servant. Hence it plainly appears that God protects the living for the sake of the saints departed. To evade this proof, Protestants (Bible 1603) explain, "for God’s promise sake made to David." But God never made any such promise to him; otherwise the city would never have been destroyed. (Worthington)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain I will defend--Notwithstanding Hezekiah's measures of defense (Ch2 32:3-5),…
I will defend--Notwithstanding Hezekiah's measures of defense (Ch2 32:3-5), Jehovah was its true defender.
mine own sake--since Jehovah's name was blasphemed by Sennacherib (Isa 37:23).
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David's sake--on account of His promise to David (Psa 132:17-18), and to Messiah, the heir of David's throne (Isa 9:7; Isa 11:1).
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 35. I will defend this city] Cf. ch. Isa_31:5,…
35. I will defend this city] Cf. ch. Isa_31:5, where the same verb is used.
for my servant David’s sake] An expression of frequent occurrence in the books of Kings. See 1Ki_11:13; 1Ki_11:34; 1Ki_15:4; 2Ki_8:19.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (35) For mine own sake . . .—The words…
(35) For mine own sake . . .—The words set forth, as it were, the two motives of Jehovah’s action: “for His own sake,” as asserting His majesty against the blasphemy of the Assyrians; for “David’s sake,” as mindful of the promise made to him, showing, in the spirit of the second commandment, that the good as well as the evil influences of men survive, and that a later generation may profit by the good that was in its predecessor, as well as suffer for its guilt.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain I will defend this city... for mine own sake;…
I will defend this city... for mine own sake; literally, I will cover over this city, as a bird covers its young with its wings. (comp. Isa_31:5 Mat_23:37) God would do this "for his own sake;" i.e. because his own honour was concerned in the defence of his people. He would also do it for his servant David"s sake; i.e. because of the promises made to David, that his children should sit upon his throne, (2Sa_7:16 Psa_89:29-37 Psa_132:11-14, etc.) which involved the continued independence of Judaea and Jerusalem.
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for my own sake and for David my servant's sake
"so that things will be better for me and for my servant David"
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 37:35 for the sake of my servant David: God…
37:35 for the sake of my servant David: God had promised David a perpetual dynasty (see 9:6-7; 2 Sam 7:8-17).
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