Isaiah 37:35
And I will protect this city, so that I may save it for my own sake, and for the sake of David, my servant.”
Catholic Public Domain 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
Cross References
1 Kings 11:12Yet truly, I will not do it in your days, for the sake of your father David. From the hand of your son, I will tear it away.
1 Kings 15:4But for the sake of David, the Lord his God gave to him a lamp in Jerusalem, so that he might raise up his son after him, and so that he might establish Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 17:19O Lord, because of your servant, in accord with your own heart, you have brought about all this magnificence, and you have willed all these great things to be known.
Isaiah 38:6And I will rescue you and this city from the hand of the king of the Assyrians, and I will protect it.
Isaiah 48:9For the sake of my name, I will take the face of my fury far away. And for the sake of my praise, I will bridle you, lest you perish.
Jeremiah 23:5Behold, the days are approaching, says the Lord, when I will raise up to David a righteous branch. And a king will reign, and he will be wise. And he will exercise judgment and justice upon the earth.
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 →