What Does 2 Kings 19:34 Mean in the King James?

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

2 Kings 19:34 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

THE KEY

The city’s rescue rests on God’s own purpose and covenant bond, while “save” carries the sense of being brought out into spaciousness.

THE MEANING

When your world feels under threat, this verse presents defense and deliverance as actions that do not depend on your ability to hold everything together. Their source is God’s own purpose and the enduring bond named through David, whose name carries the sense of “beloved.”

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The lie that safety depends entirely on your own strength dissolves here: the defense and deliverance begin with God.

THE ROOT

לְהוֹשִׁיעָהּ

lehōshîʿāh

GROWS FROM

יָשַׁע

y-sh-ʿ

To deliver, bringing someone out into spaciousness.

The verse pairs God’s defense of the city with bringing it out of danger. The root of “save” holds more than escape: it pictures release from constriction into room to live.

ALSO GROWS

yeshuah: Deliverance.

יְשׁוּעָה

The noun names the same movement of being brought out that the verse describes for the city.

moshia: Deliverer.

מוֹשִׁיעַ

This branch names the one who brings out, making the verse’s rescue an action of God rather than the city’s self-defense.

THE PATTERN

God’s protection shelters the threatened and delivers them through danger, grounded in God’s own commitment.

The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.

Exodus 14:14 · KJVThe threatened are held while the LORD takes up their defense.

He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.

Psalm 91:4 · KJVProtection is pictured as covering and shelter around the exposed.

And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

2 Timothy 4:18 · KJVDeliverance carries the same pattern into the speaker’s present danger and onward.

THE THREAD

This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

Psalm 34:6 · KJV

“Saved” here shares the Hebrew root ⁨יָשַׁע⁩ (yasha, deliver) with “save” in the current verse. The same movement of being brought out reaches from a city under threat to one person in trouble.

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