Then Bathsheba bowed with [her] face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.
Ver. 31. Let my lord king David live for ever,] i.e., Let him live his utmost. Agrippina hastened her husband Claudius the emperor's death, that her son Nero might succeed: yea, she cried out Occidar, modo imperet. But good Bathsheba was not so hasty.