Sennacherib’s Fall Prophesied
2 Kings 19:34
In 11 translations
- BSB
- ‘I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”
- KJV
- For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.
- WEB
- ‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for my servant David’s sake.’”
- ASV
- For I will defend this city to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.
- LSV
- And I have covered over this city, || To save it for My own sake, || And for the sake of My servant David.”
- YLT
- And I have covered over this city, To save it, for Mine own sake, And for the sake of David My servant.'
- DBY
- And I will defend this city, to save it, For mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
- DRC
- And I will protect this city, and will save it for my own sake, and for David my servant’s sake.
- GNV
- For I will defende this citie to saue it for mine owne sake, and for Dauid my seruants sake.
- JPS
- For I will defend this city to save it, for Mine own sake, and for My servant David's sake.'
- LXXE
- And I will defend this city as with a shield, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- וְגַנּוֹתִ֛י אֶל־הָעִ֥יר הַזֹּ֖את לְהֽוֹשִׁיעָ֑הּ לְמַֽעֲנִ֔י וּלְמַ֖עַן דָּוִ֥ד עַבְדִּֽי׃
- LXX-Br
- Καὶ ὑπερασπιῶ ὑπὲρ τῆς πόλεως ταύτης διʼ ἐμὲ καὶ διὰ Δαυὶδ τὸν δοῦλόν μου.
Who and where
👤 David◆ Reign of Hezekiah
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In the reference works topics that cite this verse
JerusalemSennacheribAssyriaHezekiahPrayerBlasphemyBible, TheIntercessionKingsIsrael, Prophecies concerning
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Cross-references most cited first
- 1 Kings 11:12–13Nevertheless, for the sake of your father David, I will not do it during your lifetime; I will tear it out of the hand of your son. Yet I will not tear the whole kingdom away from him. I will give one tribe to your son…
- 2 Kings 20:6I 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 Kings 15:4Nevertheless, for the sake of David, the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem by raising up a son to succeed him and to make Jerusalem strong.
- Isaiah 31:5Like birds hovering overhead, so the LORD of Hosts will protect Jerusalem. He will shield it and deliver it; He will pass over it and preserve it.”
- Jeremiah 33:26then I would also reject the descendants of Jacob and of My servant David, so as not to take from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will restore them from captivity and…
- Jeremiah 23:5–6Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and He will reign wisely as King and will administer justice and righteousness in the land. In His days Judah will be…
- Isaiah 38:6And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.
- Jeremiah 33:21then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant and with My ministers the Levites who are priests, so that David will not have a son to reign on his throne.
- Isaiah 9:7Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish and sustain it with justice and righteousness from that time and forevermore.…
- Deuteronomy 32:27if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed; it was not the LORD who did all this.’”
- Ephesians 1:6to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.
- Isaiah 48:11For My own sake, My very own sake, I will act; for how can I let Myself be defamed? I will not yield My glory to another.
- Isaiah 43:25I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.
- Psalms 48:2–8Beautiful in loftiness, the joy of all the earth, like the peaks of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the great King. God is in her citadels; He has shown Himself to be a fortress. For behold, the kings assembled; they…
- Psalms 46:5–6God is within her; she will not be moved. God will help her when morning dawns. Nations rage, kingdoms crumble; the earth melts when He lifts His voice.
- Ezekiel 36:22Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: It is not for your sake that I will act, O house of Israel, but for My holy name, which you profaned among the nations to which you went.
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