2 Samuel 14:19

14:19 The king said, “Did Joab put you up to all of this?” ¹  The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, there is no deviation to the right or to the left from all that my lord the king has said. For your servant Joab gave me instructions. He has put all these words in your servant’s mouth.

2 Samuel 14:1

David Permits Absalom to Return to Jerusalem

14:1 Now Joab son of Zeruiah realized that the king longed to see ²  Absalom.

2 Samuel 1:26

1:26 I grieve over you, my brother Jonathan!

You were very dear to me.

Your love was more special to me than the love of women.

2 Samuel 17:1

The Death of Ahithophel

17:1 Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me pick out twelve thousand men. Then I will go and pursue David this very night.

2 Samuel 20:3

20:3 Then David went to his palace ³  in Jerusalem. The king took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace and placed them under confinement. ⁴  Though he provided for their needs, he did not have sexual relations with them. ⁵  They remained in confinement until the day they died, living out the rest of their lives as widows.

2 Samuel 1:26

1:26 I grieve over you, my brother Jonathan!

You were very dear to me.

Your love was more special to me than the love of women.

¹ tn Heb “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?”

² tn Heb “the heart of the king was upon.” The Syriac Peshitta adds the verb ’ethre’i (“was reconciled”).

³ tn Heb “house.”

⁴ tn Heb “and he placed them in a guarded house.”

⁵ tn Heb “he did not come to them”; NAB “has no further relations with them”; NIV “did not lie with them”; TEV “did not have intercourse with them”; NLT “would no longer sleep with them.”