2 Kings 19:34
For I will keep this town safe, for my honour, and for the honour of my servant David.
Bible in Basic English
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
33By the way he came he will go back, and he will not get into this town, says the Lord.
Cross References
1 Kings 11:12I will not do it in your life-time, because of your father David, but I will take it from your son.
2 Kings 8:19But it was not the Lord's purpose to send destruction on Judah, because of David his servant, to whom he had given his word that he would have a light for ever.
Psalms 46:5\46:4\There is a river whose streams make glad the resting-place of God, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.
Psalms 48:2\48:1\Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised, in the town of our God, in his holy mountain.
Isaiah 31:5Like birds with outstretched wings, so will the Lord of armies be a cover to Jerusalem; he will be a cover and salvation for it, going over it he will keep it from danger.
Isaiah 43:25I, even I, am he who takes away your sins; and I will no longer keep your evil doings in mind.
Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 19:21-35
Sennacherib's Fall Predicted. ( b. c. 710.) 20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard. 21 This is the word that 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. 22 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted… Read the whole commentary →