Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house; because you have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
House. What a dismal scene opens itself to our view during the remaining part of David's reign! (Haydock)
Scarcely one of his successors was free from war; even Solomon was disturbed by the rebellion of Jeroboam, and many of David's family and descendants came to an untimely end, ver. 6. (Calmet)
Six sons of Josaphat, all Joram's, except one, Josias, the children of Sedecias, 4 Kings xxv. (Worthington)