Isaiah 37:35
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
34By the way he came he will go back, and he will not get into this town.
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.
1 Kings 15:4But because of David, the Lord gave him a light in Jerusalem, making his sons king after him, so that Jerusalem might be safe;
1 Chronicles 17:19O Lord, because of your servant, and from your heart, you have done all these great things and let them be seen.
Isaiah 38:6And I will keep you and this town safe from the hands of the king of Assyria: and I will keep watch over this town.
Isaiah 48:9Because of my name I will put away my wrath, and for my praise I will keep myself from cutting you off.
Jeremiah 23:5See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will give to David a true Branch, and he will be ruling as king, acting wisely, doing what is right, and judging uprightly 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 →