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English Standard Version

Isaiah 37:35

For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Assyria;   Intercession;   Libnah;   Thompson Chain Reference - Battle of Life;   Defence, Divine;   Divine;   God;   Protector, Divine;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Isaiah;   Sennacherib;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Time;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Mediator, Mediation;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Hezekiah;   King;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hezekiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - David;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Hezekiah;   Sennacherib;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ararat;   Assyria;   Hezekiah;   Interesting facts about the bible;   Jerusalem;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Isaiah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I will defend this city and rescue itfor my sakeand for the sake of my servant David.”
Hebrew Names Version
For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
King James Version
For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
New American Standard Bible
'For I will protect this city to save it for My own sake, and for My servant David's sake.'"
New Century Version
‘I will defend and save this city for my sake and for David, my servant.'"
Amplified Bible
'For I will defend this city to save it, for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.'"
World English Bible
For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For I will defend this citie to saue it, for mine owne sake, & for my seruant Dauids sake.
Legacy Standard Bible
‘Indeed I will defend this city to save it for My own sake and for My servant David's sake.'"
Berean Standard Bible
I will defend this city and rescue it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.'"
Contemporary English Version
I will protect it for the sake of my own honor and because of the promise I made to my servant David.
Complete Jewish Bible
‘For I will defend this city and save it, both for my own sake and for my servant David's sake.' "
Darby Translation
And I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
Easy-to-Read Version
I will protect this city and save it. I will do this for myself and for my servant David."
George Lamsa Translation
For I will defend this city and save it for my own sake and for my servant Davids sake.
Good News Translation
I will defend this city and protect it, for the sake of my own honor and because of the promise I made to my servant David.'"
Lexham English Bible
‘And I will defend this city, to save it for my sake and for the sake of David, my servant.'"
Literal Translation
For I will defend over this city to save it, for My own sake, and for My servant David's sake.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And I wil kepe and saue the citie (saieth he) for myne owne, & for my seruaunte Dauids sake.
American Standard Version
For I will defend this city to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
Bible in Basic English
For I will keep this town safe, for my honour, and for the honour of my servant David.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For I will defend this city to save it, for Mine own sake, and for My servant David's sake.'
King James Version (1611)
For I will defend this citie to saue it, for mine owne sake, and for my seruant Dauids sake.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And I wyll kepe and saue this citie [saith he] for myne owne and for my seruaunt Dauids sake.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I will protect this city to save it for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.
English Revised Version
For I will defend this city to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y schal defende this citee, that Y saue it, for me, and for Dauid, my seruaunt.
Update Bible Version
For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my slave David's sake.
Webster's Bible Translation
For I will defend this city, to save it for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
New English Translation
I will shield this city and rescue it for the sake of my reputation and because of my promise to David my servant."'"
New King James Version
"For I will defend this city, to save it For My own sake and for My servant David's sake."'
New Living Translation
‘For my own honor and for the sake of my servant David, I will defend this city and protect it.'"
New Life Bible
‘For I will fight for this city to save it for My own good, and for the good of My servant David.'"
New Revised Standard
For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thus will I throw a covering over this city to save it, - For mine own sake, And for the sake of David my servant.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will protect this city, and will save it for my own sake, and for the sake of David my servant.
Revised Standard Version
For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David."
Young's Literal Translation
And I have covered over this city, To save it, for Mine own sake, And for the sake of David My servant.'
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'For I will defend this city to save it for My own sake and for My servant David's sake.'"

Contextual Overview

21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says the Lord , the God of Israel: Because you have prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria, 22 this is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him: "‘She despises you, she scorns you— the virgin daughter of Zion; she wags her head behind you— the daughter of Jerusalem. 23 "‘Whom have you mocked and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes to the heights? Against the Holy One of Israel! 24 By your servants you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon, to cut down its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses, to come to its remotest height, its most fruitful forest. 25 I dug wells and drank waters, to dry up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt. 26 "‘Have you not heard that I determined it long ago? I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass, that you should make fortified cities crash into heaps of ruins, 27 while their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the field and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops, blighted before it is grown. 28 "‘I know your sitting down and your going out and coming in, and your raging against me. 29 Because you have raged against me and your complacency has come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will turn you back on the way by which you came.' 30 "And this shall be the sign for you: this year you shall eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs from that. Then in the third year sow and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I will: Isaiah 31:5, Isaiah 38:6, 2 Kings 20:6

for mine: Isaiah 43:25, Isaiah 48:9-11, Deuteronomy 32:27, Ezekiel 20:9, Ezekiel 36:22, Ephesians 1:6, Ephesians 1:14

and for: 1 Kings 11:12, 1 Kings 11:13, 1 Kings 11:36, 1 Kings 15:4, Jeremiah 23:5, Jeremiah 23:6, Jeremiah 30:9, Jeremiah 33:15, Jeremiah 33:16, Ezekiel 37:24, Ezekiel 37:25

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 33:12 - The beloved 1 Samuel 12:22 - for his great 2 Samuel 7:15 - as I took 1 Kings 20:28 - therefore will 2 Kings 8:19 - for David 2 Kings 11:2 - they hid him 1 Chronicles 17:19 - thy servant's Psalms 20:2 - out Psalms 25:2 - let not Psalms 46:4 - city Psalms 76:3 - There Psalms 129:5 - be confounded Isaiah 4:5 - all the glory Isaiah 7:2 - the house Isaiah 10:27 - because Isaiah 31:4 - so shall Isaiah 31:8 - shall the Isaiah 43:12 - declared Jeremiah 4:10 - Ye shall have Ezekiel 36:21 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 31:43
Then Laban answered and said to Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day for these my daughters or for their children whom they have borne?
Genesis 37:22
And Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood; throw him into this pit here in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him"—that he might rescue him out of their hand to restore him to his father.
Genesis 37:26
Then Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?
Genesis 37:29
When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not in the pit, he tore his clothes
Genesis 37:31
Then they took Joseph's robe and slaughtered a goat and dipped the robe in the blood.
Genesis 42:31
But we said to him, ‘We are honest men; we have never been spies.
Genesis 42:38
But he said, "My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he is the only one left. If harm should happen to him on the journey that you are to make, you would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."
Genesis 45:28
And Israel said, "It is enough; Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die."
2 Samuel 12:17
And the elders of his house stood beside him, to raise him from the ground, but he would not, nor did he eat food with them.
Job 2:11
Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For I will defend this city to save it,.... Or, "shield it"; and if God will be the shield and protection of any place or people, they must needs be safe; who can hurt them?

For my own sake, and for my servant David's sake; not for the merits of the inhabitants of it, but for the sake of his own name and glory, who had been blasphemed by the Assyrian monarch, and his general; and for the sake of his servant David, in whose seed he had promised the kingdom should be established; see 2 Samuel 7:12 and chiefly for the sake of the Messiah, David's son, and the Lord's servant, who was to spring from Hezekiah's race, and therefore must not be cut off.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For I will defend this city - Notwithstanding all that Hezekiah had done to put it in a posture of defense (2 Chronicles 32:1, following) still it was Yahweh alone who could preserve it.

For mine own sake - God had been reproached and blasphemed by Sennacherib. As his name and power had been thus blasphemed, he says that he would vindicate himself, and for the honor of his own insulted majesty would save the city.

And for my servant David’s sake - On account of the promise which he had made to him that there should not fail a man to sit on his throne, and that the city and nation should not be destroyed until the Messiah should appear (see Psalms 132:10-18).


 
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