<p class="bodytext">Then David went to his palace<n id="1" /> in Jerusalem. The king took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace and placed them under confinement.<n id="2" /> Though he provided for their needs, he did not have sexual relations with them.<n id="3" /> They remained in confinement until the day they died, living out the rest of their lives as widows.p>

He turned them over to the Gibeonites, and they executed them on a hill before the <sc>Lordsc>. The seven of them<n id="1" /> died<n id="2" /> together; they were put to death during harvest time &#8211; during the first days of the beginning<n id="3" /> of the barley harvest.p>