here. For the verb “to build” can also mean “to have children”. In this way, each “son” of the Davidic line would become God’s “son” in a special way (verse 14). So here we have still another of God’s covenants (see Ps. 89:3), one now made with the line of David. God promised to be eternally faithful to that line. “I will not take my steadfast love from him…and your house and your kingdom shall be made sure before me…for ever” (verse 15). Both of these double words in italics are “covenantal”