A moment in scripture
Isaiah 37:35
For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.
The surrounding passage
- Isaiah 37:33
Therefore 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 shields, nor cast a bank against it.
- Isaiah 37:34
By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the Lord.
- Isaiah 37:36
Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
- Isaiah 37:37
So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.