Isaiah 37:35
Old Testament • 8 words with Strong's data
"For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake."
Word-by-Word Analysis
גָּנַן
gânan
to hedge about, i.e. (generally) protect
עִיר
ʻîyr
a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
יָשַׁע
yâshaʻ
properly, to be open, wide or free, i.e. (by implication) to be safe; causatively, to free or succor
דָּוִד
Dâvid
David, the youngest son of Jesse
Key Terms in This Verse
יָשַׁע yâshaʻ
properly, to be open, wide or free, i.e. (by implication) to be safe; causatively, to free or succor
Study H3467 →עִיר ʻîyr
a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
Study H5892 →Cross References
And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake...
And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.
As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.
Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.
Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.
To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
But I wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt...
Nevertheless for David’s sake did the LORD his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:
Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name’s sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye we...
And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
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