‘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 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 38:6And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.
- 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.’”
- 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 33:15–16In those days and at that time I will cause to sprout for David a righteous Branch, and He 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ezek 37:24–25My servant David will be king over them, and there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow My ordinances and keep and observe My statutes.
- Jer 30:9Instead, they will serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.
- 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.
- Eph 1:6to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.
- 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.’”
- 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 48:9–11For 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.
- 1 Kgs 11:36I will give one tribe to his son, so that My servant David will always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put My Name.
- Ezek 20:9But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they were living, in whose sight I had revealed Myself to Israel by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
- 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.
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