Isaiah 37:35
For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.
In Context
34By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come to this city, says LORD.
Cross References
1 Kings 11:12Notwithstanding I will not do it in thy days, for David thy father's sake, but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.
1 Kings 15:4Nevertheless for David's sake LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem,
1 Chronicles 17:19O LORD, for thy servant's sake, and according to thine own heart, thou have wrought all this greatness, to make known all [these] great things.
Isaiah 38:6And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city.
Isaiah 48:9For my name's sake I will defer my anger, and for my praise I will refrain for thee, that I not cut thee off.
Jeremiah 23:5Behold, the days come, says LORD, that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 37:22-38
Sennacherib Threatened; Sennacherib Destroyed. ( b. c. 710.) 21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria: 22 This is the word which the Lord hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee. 23 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and… Read the whole commentary →