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2 Kings 19:34

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‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’ ”

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2 Kings 19:34 in other translations

For I will defend this city to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.

2 Kings 19:34 · American Standard Version

2 Kings 19:34 in context

  1. 32“Therefore Yahweh says concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there. He will not come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.
  2. 33He will return the same way that he came, and he will not come to this city,’ says Yahweh.
  3. 34‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’ ”
  4. 35That night, Yahweh’s angel went out, and struck one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
  5. 36So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh.