Isaiah 37:35

35 'And I will defend this city, to save it for my sake and for the sake of David, my servant.'"

Isaiah 37:35 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 37:35

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 7:12-16 ) 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.

Isaiah 37:35 In-Context

33 Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria: 'He shall not come to this city, and he shall not shoot an arrow there, and he shall not meet it [with] a shield, and he shall not heap a siege ramp up against her.

34 He shall return by the way that he came, and he shall not come to this city,' {declares} Yahweh.

35 'And I will defend this city, to save it for my sake and for the sake of David, my servant.'"

36 And the angel of Yahweh set out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When they rose in the morning, look! All of them [were] dead corpses.

37 Then Sennacherib king of Assyria left, went, and returned and lived at Nineveh.