2 Samuel 20:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

David came to his house at Jerusalem, and the king took the ten concubines whom he had left to look after the house and put them in a house under guard and provided for them but did not go in to them. So they were shut up until the day of their death, living as if in widowhood.

Cross References

Genesis 40:3

and he put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison where Joseph was confined.

2 Samuel 15:16

So the king left, followed by all his household, except ten concubines whom he left behind to look after the house.

2 Samuel 20:2

So all the people of Israel withdrew from David and followed Sheba son of Bichri, but the people of Judah followed their king steadfastly from the Jordan to Jerusalem.