Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
See the marginal references. To "build a sure house," or "give a house," is to give a continuity of offspring, and so secure the perpetuity of a family. The promise, it will be observed, is conditional; and as the condition was not complied with, it did not take effect (see I Kings 14:8-14). The entire house of Jeroboam was destroyed by Baasha I Kings 15:29.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 1 Kings 11:38:
1 Samuel 25:28
1 Kings 12:26
1 Kings 13:34
1 Kings 14:2
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