“This is what YHWH says: ‘I am going to raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.
2 Samuel 15:16 - Y'all Version Bible The king went out, and all his household after him. The king left ten women, who were concubines, to keep the house. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the king went forth, and all his household after him. And the king left ten women, which were concubines, to keep the house. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So the king and all his household after him went forth. But he left ten women who were concubines to keep the house. [II Sam. 12:11; 20:3.] American Standard Version (1901) And the king went forth, and all his household after him. And the king left ten women, that were concubines, to keep the house. Common English Bible So the king left, with his entire household following him, but he left ten secondary wives behind to take care of the palace. Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, the king departed, with his entire household on foot. And the king left behind ten women of the concubines to care for the house. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the king went forth, and all his household on foot. And the king left ten women his concubines to keep the house. |
“This is what YHWH says: ‘I am going to raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.
The king’s servants said to the king, “Look, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king chooses.”
The king went out, and all the people after him; and they stayed in Beth Merhak.
Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now why are y’all hesitating to restore the king?”
David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in custody and provided them with sustenance, but didn’t go in to them. So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood.
Y’all must not be conformed to this world. Instead y’all are to be transformed by the renovation of the mind, so that y’all may test and approve what the will of God is—that which is good, pleasing, and perfect.
Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali together to Kedesh. Ten thousand men followed him, and Deborah went up with him.
Now this present which your servant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord.
Abigail hurriedly arose and rode on a donkey with her five maids who followed her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.