15:16 So the king and all the members of his royal court 1 set out on foot, though the king left behind ten concubines 2 to attend to the palace.
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.
1 tn Heb “and all his house.”
2 tn Heb “women, concubines.”
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.”