‘I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”
Parallel translations
- WEB ‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’”
- KJV For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.
- NKJV ‘For I will defend this city, to save it For My own sake and for My servant David’s sake.’ ”
- NASB ‘For I will protect this city to save it for My own sake, and for My servant David’s sake.’ ”
- NLT For my own honor and for the sake of my servant David, I will defend this city and protect it.”
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Quick answer
God says He will defend Jerusalem for His own name's sake and for the sake of His servant David. Salvation rests on God's covenant faithfulness, not human merit.
Overview
The basis of Jerusalem's deliverance is not Hezekiah's goodness but God's own honor and His covenant promise to David. The LORD guards the city where His name and the Davidic line dwell. This anticipates the gospel, where God saves sinners for His own glory and for the sake of the true Son of David, Jesus Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 18
- 1 Kgs 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.
- 2 Kgs 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 Kgs 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.
- Isa 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.”
- Jer 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 will have compassion on them.”
- Jer 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.
- Isa 38:6And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.
- Jer 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.
- Isa 43:25I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.
- Deut 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.’”
- Isa 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.
- Eph 1:6to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.
- Isa 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. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.
- Ps 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.
- Eph 1:14who is the pledge of our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession, to the praise of His glory.
- Ezek 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.
- Isa 48:9For the sake of My name I will delay My wrath; for the sake of My praise I will restrain it, so that you will not be cut off.
- Ps 46:5–6God is within her; she will not be moved. God will help her when morning dawns.
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