2 Samuel 20:3

Modern English Version

When the king came to his house in Jerusalem, he took the ten women, the concubines whom he had left to keep watch over the house, and he placed them in custody. He provided for them but did not go in to them. They were shut up until the day of their deaths, living as in widowhood.

Cross References

Genesis 40:3

So he put them in confinement in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison, the place where Joseph was confined.

2 Samuel 15:16

So the king left with his entire house after him, but he left behind ten women, concubines, to watch over the house.

2 Samuel 20:2

So every man of Israel withdrew from following David and followed after Sheba the son of Bichri, but the men of Judah stayed with their king, from the Jordan as far as Jerusalem.