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‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’”
Isaiah 37:35 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.
  • BSB ‘I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”
  • 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 will defend Jerusalem for his own sake and for the sake of his servant David. Deliverance flows from God's grace and covenant, not Judah's merit.

Overview

The Lord gives the ground of his rescue: his own glory and his promise to David. Judah is spared not because it deserves it but because God keeps covenant. This commitment to David's line ultimately finds its fulfillment in Jesus, the Son of David, through whom God's saving purposes are secured.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 17

  • Isa 38:6I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city.
  • 2 Kgs 20:6I will add to your days fifteen years. I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.”’”
  • Isa 31:5As birds hovering, so Yahweh of Armies will protect Jerusalem. He will protect and deliver it. He will pass over and preserve it.”
  • Jer 33:15–16“In those days, and at that time, I will cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up to David; and he will execute justice and righteousness in the land.
  • Isa 43:25I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
  • Eph 1:14who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.
  • Jer 23:5–6“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
  • Ezek 37:24–25My servant David shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them.
  • Jer 30:9but they will serve Yahweh their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them.
  • Ezek 36:22Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I don’t do this for your sake, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations, where you went.
  • Eph 1:6to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,
  • Deut 32:27were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, ‘Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.’”
  • 1 Kgs 15:4Nevertheless for David’s sake, Yahweh his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem;
  • Isa 48:9–11For my name’s sake, I will defer my anger, and for my praise I hold it back for you, so that I don’t cut you off.
  • 1 Kgs 11:36To his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
  • Ezek 20:9But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, among which they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
  • 1 Kgs 11:12–13Nevertheless, I will not do it in your days, for David your father’s sake; but I will tear it out of your son’s hand.

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Christ at the center

Isaiah sees him most clearly: the virgin's son Immanuel, the child on David's throne, the shoot from Jesse, the light to the nations, and above all the Suffering Servant pierced for our transgressions (ch. 53).

How Isaiah 37:35 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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