And she took off her widow’s robes from her, and veiled herself with a veil, and disguised herself. And she sat at the entrance of the fountains, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that Shelah had grown up, and she had not been given to him for a wife.
And David came into his house at Jerusalem. And the king took the ten women, the concubines whom he had left to guard the house, and fed them. But he did not go in to them, and they were shut up to the day of their death in widowhood.
And when he saw the angel who was striking among the people, David spoke to Jehovah and said, Behold, I have sinned. Yea, I have acted perversely. And these, the flock, what have they done? Now let your hand be on me, and on my father’s house.
And you who have mediated for your sisters must bear your shame by your sins which you abominably did more than they; they are more righteous than you. And also you be ashamed and lift up your shame, in that you have judged your sisters.
You are of purer eyes than to look upon evil, and You are not able to look upon mischief. Why do you regard those acting deceitfully? Will You be silent when the wicked one swallows the more righteous one than he?
But they hearing, and being convicted by the conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the older ones, until the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
But we know that as many things as the law says, it says to the ones within the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be accountable to God.