Yeshayah 37:35

35 For I will defend this city to save it for Mine Own sake, and for the sake of Dovid Avdi.

Yeshayah 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.

Yeshayah 37:35 In-Context

33 Therefore thus saith Hashem concerning Melech Ashur, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot khetz (an arrow) there, nor come before it with mogen, nor cast a siege ramp against it.

34 By the derech that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith Hashem.

35 For I will defend this city to save it for Mine Own sake, and for the sake of Dovid Avdi.

36 Then the Malach Hashem went forth, and struck down in the Machaneh Ashur a hundred and fourscore and five elef; and when they arose early in the boker, hinei, they were all pegarim mesim (dead corpses).

37 So Sanecheriv Melech Ashur departed, and went and returned, and dwelt in Nineveh.