20:3 Then David went to his palace 2 in Jerusalem. The king took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace and placed them under confinement. 3 Though he provided for their needs, he did not have sexual relations with them. 4 They remained in confinement until the day they died, living out the rest of their lives as widows.
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1 tn Heb “house.”
2 tn Heb “and he placed them in a guarded house.”
3 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.”