Under the Soles of His Feet
Stephen Alford: Henry’s Wars, 4 April 2019
The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII
by Steven Gunn.
Oxford, 297 pp., £35, January 2018,978 0 19 880286 0 Show More
by Steven Gunn.
Oxford, 297 pp., £35, January 2018,
“... In the First Book of Kings (5:1-5) Hiram, King of Tyre, sends servants to Solomon, ‘for he had heard, that they had anointed him king in the room of his father,’ David: For Hiram was ever a lover of David. And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying: thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the Lord his God, for the wars which were about him on every side, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet ... ”