Then David came to his house in Jerusalem, and the king took the ten women, the concubines whom he had left behind to take care of the house, and put them in custody and provided them with food, but did not have relations with them. So they were locked up until the day of their death, living as widows.
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Living in widowhood. —This was the necessary result, under the system of polygamy, of what had happened. The clause may be underst…

And David came to his house at Jerusalem
His palace there, which was in that part of the city called the fort of Zio…

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