Did I not make thee to swear by the Lord There is no mention of an oath in the previous part of the narrative (1 Kings 2:37), but the solemnity of the charge was probably so enforced. The LXX, making both portions of the story to correspond, inserts in 1 Kings 2:37 -and the king made him to swear in that day."

The wordthat I have heard -The saying &c." as in 1 Kings 2:38. The same Hebrew will thus have the same English.

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