2 Kings 19:34
◄  2 Kings 19:34  ►
New International Version (©2011)
I will defend this city and save it, for my sake and for the sake of David my servant.'"

New Living Translation (©2007)
For my own honor and for the sake of my servant David, I will defend this city and protect it."

English Standard Version (©2001)
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 (©1995)
'For I will defend this city to save it for My own sake and for My servant David's sake.'"

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
I will defend this city and rescue it for My sake and for the sake of My servant David."

International Standard Version (©2012)
I will defend this city and preserve it for my own reasons, and because of my servant David.'"

NET Bible (©2006)
I will shield this city and rescue it for the sake of my reputation and because of my promise to David my servant.'"

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
"I will shield this city to rescue it for my sake and for the sake of my servant David."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
For I will defend this city, to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

American King James Version
For I will defend this city, to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

American Standard Version
For I will defend this city to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

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

Darby Bible Translation
And I will defend this city, to save it, For mine 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.

Webster's Bible Translation
For I will defend this city, to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

World English Bible
'For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.'"

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.'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

19:20-34 All Sennacherib's motions were under the Divine cognizance. God himself undertakes to defend the city; and that person, that place, cannot but be safe, which he undertakes to protect. The invasion of the Assyrians probably had prevented the land from being sown that year. The next is supposed to have been the sabbatical year, but the Lord engaged that the produce of the land should be sufficient for their support during those two years. As the performance of this promise was to be after the destruction of Sennacherib's army, it was a sign to Hezekiah's faith, assuring him of that present deliverance, as an earnest of the Lord's future care of the kingdom of Judah. This the Lord would perform, not for their righteousness, but his own glory. May our hearts be as good ground, that his word may strike root therein, and bring forth fruit in our lives.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 34. - For I will defend this city, to save it - not merely with a view of saving it, but in such sort as effectually to save it - for mine own sake - i.e., because my own honor is concerned in its preservation, especially after the taunts of Sennacherib (2 Kings 18:32-35; 2 Kings 19:10-13) - and for my servant David's sake. Not so much on account of the promises made to David, as on account of the love which God bore towards him for his faithfulness and earnest devotion.

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Destruction of Sennacherib Prohesied
…32Therefore thus said the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it. 33By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, said the LORD. 34For I will defend this city, to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

1 Kings 11:12 Nevertheless, for the sake of David your father, I will not do it during your lifetime. I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
1 Kings 11:13 Yet I will not tear the whole kingdom from him, but will give him one tribe for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen."
2 Kings 20:6 I will add fifteen years to your life. And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for my sake and for the sake of my servant David.'"
Isaiah 31:5 Like birds hovering overhead, the LORD Almighty will shield Jerusalem; he will shield it and deliver it, he will 'pass over' it and will rescue it."