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2 Kings 19:34 KJV
2 Kings · chapter 19 · verse 34
For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.2 Kings 19:34 · King James Version
2 Kings 19:34 in context
32Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
33By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
34For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.
35And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
36So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
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Key words (Strong's)
- servantʻebeda servantH5650 →
- David'sDâvidDavid, the youngest son of JesseH1732 →
- defendgânanto hedge aboutH1598 →
- cityʻîyra city in the widest senseH5892 →
- saveyâshaʻproperly, to be open, wide or freeH3467 →
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We have here the gracious copious answer which God gave to Hezekiah's prayer. The message which he sent him by the same hand (Kg2 19:6, Kg2 19:7), one would think, was an answer sufficient to his prayer;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 20-34