Verse 3

When Dauid then came to his house to Ierusalem, the King tooke the ten women his concubines, that hee had left behinde him to keepe the house, and put them in warde, and fed them, but lay no more with them: but they were enclosed vnto the day of their death, liuing in widowhode.

Referenced Verses

• 2 Sam 15:16 : 16 So the King departed and all his houshold after him, and the King left ten concubines to keepe the house.
• 2 Sam 16:21-22 : 21 And Ahithophel said vnto Absalom, Goe in to thy fathers concubines, which he hath left to keepe the house: and when all Israel shall heare, that thou art abhorred of thy father, the hands of all that are with thee, shall be strong. 22 So they spread Absalom a tent vpon the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his fathers concubines in the sight of all Israel.
• Gen 40:3 : 3 Therefore he put them in ward in his chiefe stewardes house, in the prison and place where Ioseph was bound.