Isaiah 37:35
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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 because of Me and because of My servant David."

International Standard Version (©2012)
because I will defend this city and deliver it, for my own sake and for the sake 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 the sake of David my servant.

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

37:1-38 This chapter is the same as 2Ki 19

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 35. - I will defend this city... for mine own sake; literally, I will cover over this city, as a bird covers its young with its wings (comp. Isaiah 31:5; Matthew 23:37). God would do this "for his own sake;" i.e. because his own honour was concerned in the defence of his people. He would also do it for his servant David's sake; i.e. because of the promises made to David, that his children should sit upon his throne (2 Samuel 7:16; Psalm 89:29-37; Psalm 132:11-14, etc.), which involved the continued independence of Judaea and Jerusalem.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

35. I will defend—Notwithstanding Hezekiah's measures of defense (2Ch 32:3-5), Jehovah was its true defender.

mine own sake—since Jehovah's name was blasphemed by Sennacherib (Isa 37:23).

David's sake—on account of His promise to David (Ps 132:17, 18), and to Messiah, the heir of David's throne (Isa 9:7; 11:1).

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The Fall of Sennacherib
…33Therefore 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 shields, nor cast a bank against it. 34By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, said the LORD. 35For I will defend this city to save it for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

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.'"
1 Chronicles 17:19 LORD. For the sake of your servant and according to your will, you have done this great thing and made known all these great promises.
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."
Isaiah 38:6 And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.
Isaiah 43:25 "I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more.
Isaiah 48:9 For my own name's sake I delay my wrath; for the sake of my praise I hold it back from you, so as not to destroy you completely.
Isaiah 48:11 For my own sake, for my own sake, I do this. How can I let myself be defamed? I will not yield my glory to another.
Zechariah 9:15 and the LORD Almighty will shield them. They will destroy and overcome with slingstones. They will drink and roar as with wine; they will be full like a bowl used for sprinkling the corners of the altar.