Isaiah 37:35

35 'For I will ¹defend this city to save it ²for My own sake and for My servant David's sake.' "

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 the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, 'He will not come to this city or shoot an arrow there; and he will not come before it with a shield, or throw up a siege ramp against it.

34 'By the way that he came, by the same he will return, and he will not come to this city,' declares the LORD .

35 'For I will defend this city to save it for My own sake and for My servant David's sake.' "

36 Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, all of these were dead .

37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned home and lived at Nineveh.

Cross References

• 1. 2 Kings 20:6; Isaiah 31:5; Isaiah 38:6
• 2. Isaiah 43:25; Isaiah 48:9, 11