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King James Version (1611 Edition)

Isaiah 37:35

For I will defend this citie to saue it, for mine owne sake, and for my seruant Dauids sake.

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.
English Standard Version
For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David."
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.'
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 sonne of Amoz sent vnto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Wheras thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria: 22 This is the worde which the Lord hath spoken concerning him: The virgin, the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorne, the daughter of Ierusalem hath shaken her head at thee. 23 Whom hast thou reproched and blasphemed? and against whome hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted vp thine eyes on high? euen against the Holy One of Israel. 24 By thy seruants hast thou reproched the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my charets am I come vp to the height of the mountaines, to the sides of Lebanon, and I wil cut downe the tall cedars thereof, and the choise firre trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forrest of his Carmel. 25 I haue digged and drunke water, and with the sole of my feete haue I dried vp all the riuers of the besieged places. 26 Hast thou not heard long agoe, how I haue done it, and of ancient times, that I haue formed it? now haue I brought it to passe, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heapes. 27 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grasse of the field, and as the greene herbe, as the grasse on the house tops, and as corne blasted before it be growen vp. 28 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy comming in, and thy rage against me. 29 Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult is come vp into mine eares: therefore will I put my hooke in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turne thee backe by the way by which thou camest. 30 And this shall be a signe vnto thee, Ye shall eate this yeere such as groweth of it felfe: and the second yeere that which springeth of the same: and in the third yeere sow ye and reape, and plant vineyards, and eate the fruit thereof.

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
And Laban answered and said vnto Iacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattell are my cattell, and all that thou seest, is mine: and what can I doe this day vnto these my daughters, or vnto their children which they haue borne?
Genesis 37:22
And Reuben saide vnto them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the wildernesse, and lay no hand vpon him; that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliuer him to his father againe.
Genesis 37:26
And Iudah saide vnto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceale his blood?
Genesis 37:29
And Reuben returned vnto the pit, and behold, Ioseph was not in the pit: and he rent his clothes.
Genesis 37:31
And they tooke Iosephs coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood.
Genesis 42:31
And we said vnto him, We are true men; we are no spies.
Genesis 42:38
And he said, My sonne shall not goe downe with you, for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischiefe befall him by the way in the which yee goe, then shall ye bring downe my gray haires with sorrow to the graue.
Genesis 45:28
And Israel said, It is enough; Ioseph my sonne is yet aliue: I will goe and see him before I die.
2 Samuel 12:17
And the Elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him vp from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eate bread with them.
Job 2:11
Now when Iobs three friends heard of all this euill, that was come vpon him, they came euery one from his owne place: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; for they had made an appointment together to come to mourne with him, and to 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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