📖WEB · 2 Kings 19:34
What does 2 Kings 19:34 mean?
"‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’”"
— 2 Kings 19:34 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go out, and out of Mount Zion those who shall escape. Yahweh’s zeal will perform this.
“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.
By the way that he came, by the same he will return, and he will not come to this city,’ says Yahweh.
‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’”
That 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.
So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh.
As he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.
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