2 Samuel 15:16

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

So the king and all the members of his royal court set out on foot, though the king left behind ten concubines to attend to the palace.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 16:21-22 : 21 Ahithophel replied to Absalom,“Sleep with your father’s concubines whom he left to care for the palace. All Israel will hear that you have made yourself repulsive to your father. Then your followers will be motivated to support you.” 22 So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and Absalom slept with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.
  • 2 Sam 20:3 : 3 Then David went to his palace in Jerusalem. The king took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace and placed them under confinement. Though he provided for their needs, he did not sleep with them. They remained under restriction until the day they died, living out the rest of their lives as widows.
  • Ps 3:1 : 1 A psalm of David, written when he fled from his son Absalom. LORD, how numerous are my enemies! Many attack me.
  • Rom 12:2 : 2 Do not be conformed to this present world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may test and approve what is the will of God– what is good and well-pleasing and perfect.
  • Judg 4:10 : 10 Barak summoned men from Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh. Ten thousand men followed him; Deborah went up with him as well.
  • 1 Sam 25:27 : 27 Now let this present that your servant has brought to my lord be given to the servants who follow my lord.
  • 1 Sam 25:42 : 42 Then Abigail quickly went and mounted her donkey, with five of her female servants accompanying her. She followed David’s messengers and became his wife.
  • 2 Sam 12:11 : 11 This is what the LORD has said:‘I am about to bring disaster on you from inside your own household! Right before your eyes I will take your wives and hand them over to your companion. He will go to bed with your wives in broad daylight!

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 2 Sam 15:17-18
    2 verses
    81%

    17The king and all the people set out on foot, pausing at a spot some distance away.

    18All his servants were leaving with him, along with all the Kerethites, all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites– some six hundred men who had come on foot from Gath. They were leaving with the king.

  • 2 Sam 20:2-3
    2 verses
    80%

    2So all the men of Israel deserted David and followed Sheba son of Bicri. But the men of Judah stuck by their king all the way from the Jordan River to Jerusalem.

    3Then David went to his palace in Jerusalem. The king took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace and placed them under confinement. Though he provided for their needs, he did not sleep with them. They remained under restriction until the day they died, living out the rest of their lives as widows.

  • 2 Sam 15:15
    78%

    15The king’s servants replied to the king,“We will do whatever our lord the king decides.”

  • Esth 2:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13the woman would go to the king in the following way: Whatever she asked for would be provided for her to take with her from the harem to the royal palace.

    14In the evening she went, and in the morning she returned to a separate part of the harem, to the authority of Shaashgaz the king’s eunuch who was overseeing the concubines. She would not go back to the king unless the king was pleased with her and she was requested by name.

  • 2 Sam 13:17
    71%

    17He called his personal attendant and said to him,“Take this woman out of my sight and lock the door behind her!”

  • 2 Sam 14:8
    70%

    8Then the king told the woman,“Go to your home. I will give instructions concerning your situation.”

  • 1 Kgs 3:16-17
    2 verses
    70%

    16Solomon Demonstrates His Wisdom Then two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.

    17One of the women said,“My master, this woman and I live in the same house. I had a baby while she was with me in the house.

  • 1 Kgs 11:3
    70%

    3He had 700 royal wives and 300 concubines; his wives had a powerful influence over him.

  • 2 Sam 5:13
    69%

    13David married more concubines and wives from Jerusalem after he arrived from Hebron. Even more sons and daughters were born to David.

  • 2 Chr 12:11
    69%

    11Whenever the king visited the LORD’s temple, the royal guards carried them and then brought them back to the guardroom.

  • 2 Kgs 24:14-15
    2 verses
    69%

    14He deported all the residents of Jerusalem, including all the officials and all the soldiers(10,000 people in all). This included all the craftsmen and those who worked with metal. No one was left except for the poorest among the people of the land.

    15He deported Jehoiachin from Jerusalem to Babylon, along with the king’s mother and wives, his eunuchs, and the high-ranking officials of the land.

  • Zech 12:14
    69%

    14all the clans that remain, each separately with their wives.”

  • 2 Sam 16:21-22
    2 verses
    69%

    21Ahithophel replied to Absalom,“Sleep with your father’s concubines whom he left to care for the palace. All Israel will hear that you have made yourself repulsive to your father. Then your followers will be motivated to support you.”

    22So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and Absalom slept with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 14:28
    69%

    28Whenever the king visited the LORD’s temple, the royal guard carried them and then brought them back to the guardroom.

  • Song 6:8
    68%

    8There may be sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and young women without number.

  • Esth 2:2
    68%

    2The king’s servants who attended him said,“Let a search be conducted on the king’s behalf for attractive young women.

  • 2 Sam 11:9
    68%

    9But Uriah stayed at the door of the palace with all the servants of his lord. He did not go down to his house.

  • 2 Sam 15:9
    68%

    9The king replied to him,“Go in peace.” So Absalom got up and went to Hebron.

  • 1 Kgs 1:15
    68%

    15So Bathsheba visited the king in his private quarters.(The king was very old, and Abishag the Shunammite was serving the king.)

  • 2 Chr 21:17
    68%

    17They attacked Judah and swept through it. They carried off everything they found in the royal palace, including his sons and wives. None of his sons was left, except for his youngest, Ahaziah.

  • 1 Kgs 11:15
    68%

    15During David’s campaign against Edom, Joab, the commander of the army, while on a mission to bury the dead, killed every male in Edom.

  • Judg 19:2
    68%

    2However, she got angry at him and went home to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. When she had been there four months,

  • 2 Sam 14:13
    68%

    13The woman said,“Why have you devised something like this against God’s people? When the king speaks in this fashion, he makes himself guilty, for the king has not brought back the one he has banished.

  • 2 Chr 8:15
    68%

    15They did not neglect any detail of the king’s orders pertaining to the priests, Levites, and treasuries.

  • 1 Kgs 10:4-5
    2 verses
    68%

    4When the queen of Sheba saw for herself Solomon’s extensive wisdom, the palace he had built,

    5the food in his banquet hall, his servants and attendants, their robes, his cupbearers, and his burnt offerings which he presented in the LORD’s temple, she was amazed.

  • 2 Chr 9:12
    68%

    12King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba everything she requested, more than what she had brought him. Then she left and returned to her homeland with her attendants.

  • 2 Sam 19:17
    67%

    17There were a thousand men from Benjamin with him, along with Ziba the servant of Saul’s household, and with him his fifteen sons and twenty servants. They hurriedly crossed the Jordan within sight of the king.

  • 2 Sam 13:27
    67%

    27But when Absalom pressed him, he sent Amnon and all the king’s sons along with him.

  • Jer 29:2
    67%

    2He sent it after King Jeconiah, the queen mother, the palace officials, the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the metal workers had been exiled from Jerusalem.

  • 1 Kgs 10:13
    67%

    13King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba everything she requested, besides what he had freely offered her. Then she left and returned to her homeland with her attendants.

  • 1 Kgs 11:1
    67%

    1The Lord Punishes Solomon for Idolatry King Solomon fell in love with many foreign women(besides Pharaoh’s daughter), including Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites.

  • Judg 19:10
    67%

    10But the man did not want to stay another night. He left and traveled as far as Jebus(that is, Jerusalem). He had with him a pair of saddled donkeys and his concubine.

  • Esth 1:10
    67%

    10Queen Vashti is Removed from Her Royal Position On the seventh day, as King Ahasuerus was feeling the effects of the wine, he ordered Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven eunuchs who attended him,

  • 2 Sam 19:15
    66%

    15So the king returned and came to the Jordan River. Now the people of Judah had come to Gilgal to meet the king and to help him cross the Jordan.

  • 2 Chr 10:16
    66%

    16When all Israel saw that the king refused to listen to them, the people answered the king,“We have no portion in David– no share in the son of Jesse! Return to your homes, O Israel! Now, look after your own dynasty, O David!” So all Israel returned to their homes.

  • 2 Chr 17:19
    66%

    19These were the ones who served the king, besides those whom the king placed in the fortified cities throughout Judah.

  • 1 Sam 30:9
    66%

    9So David went, accompanied by his six hundred men. When he came to the Wadi Besor, those who were in the rear stayed there.

  • 2 Sam 14:24
    66%

    24But the king said,“Let him go over to his own house. He may not see my face.” So Absalom went over to his own house; he did not see the king’s face.

  • Judg 19:28
    66%

    28He said to her,“Get up, let’s leave!” But there was no response. He put her on the donkey and went home.

  • 2 Sam 15:1
    66%

    1Absalom Leads an Insurrection against David Some time later Absalom managed to acquire a chariot and horses, as well as fifty men to serve as his royal guard.

  • 2 Sam 20:7
    66%

    7So Joab’s men, accompanied by the Kerethites, the Pelethites, and all the warriors, left Jerusalem to pursue Sheba son of Bicri.