The phrase “making a house” means “continuing the posterity” of a person, and in the case of a royal person, “maintaining his descendants upon the …

As the Lord liveth, which hath ...—There is something characteristic in this adjuration, as compared with that of David in [Reference 1 Ki…

Now therefore, as the Lord lives
Which is another oath; and one may easily perceive hereby in what a temper and disp…

Solomon received Bathsheba with all the respect that was owing to a mother; but let no one be asked for what they ought not to grant. It ill become…