1 Kings 2:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

Then King Solomon sware by the Lord Once here, and again 1 Kings 2:24, which he did to oblige himself irrevocably to perform his resolution, and to prevent all intercession for Adonijah's life, the matter being, he believed, of the greatest importance to him.

1 Kings 2:23

23 Then king Solomon sware by the LORD, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life.