Bible verse
‘I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”
2 Kings 19:34 · BSB
The verses around it, from 2 Kings 19.
30 And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root below and bear fruit above.
31 For a remnant will go forth from Jerusalem, and survivors from Mount Zion. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.
32 So this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: ‘He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow into it. He will not come before it with a shield or build up a siege ramp against it.
33 He will go back the way he came, and he will not enter this city,’ declares the LORD.
34 ‘I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”
35 And that very night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!
36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.
37 One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-haddon reigned in his place.
KJV
For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine 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.
ERV
For I will defend this city to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.
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