2 Kings 19:34

And I will protect this city, and will save it for my own sake, and for David my servant's sake.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 that he came, he shall return: and into this city he shall not come, saith the Lord.

35And it came to pass that night, that an angel of the Lord came, and slew in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when he arose early in the morning, he saw all the bodies of the dead.

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Cross References

1 Kings 11:12Nevertheless in thy days I will not do it, for David thy father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.

2 Kings 8:19But the Lord would not destroy Juda, for David his servant's sake, as he had promised him, to give him a light, and to his children always.

Psalms 46:5The stream of the river maketh the city of God joyful: the most High hath sanctified his own tabernacle.

Psalms 48:2Great is the Lord, and exceedingly to be praised in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.

Isaiah 31:5As birds dying, so will the Lord of hosts protect Jerusalem, protecting and delivering, passing over and saving.

Isaiah 43:25I am, I am he that blot out thy iniquities for my own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.

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 →

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