2 Samuel 15:16

Translations

Modern

Then the king set out, and his entire household followed him. But he left behind ten concubines to take care of the palace.

Traditional

And the king went forth, and all his household after him. And the king left ten women, which were concubines, to keep the house.

Literal

And the king went out, and all his household at his feet, and the king left ten women, concubines, to keep the house.

Latin

Egressus est ergo rex et universa domus ejus pedibus suis: et dereliquit rex decem mulieres concubinas ad custodiendam domum.

Original

Hebrew

English

Then the king set out, and his entire household followed him. But he left behind ten concubines to take care of the palace.

Notes

2 Samuel 15:15–16

David might have left ten of his concubines behind because he thought his exile would be brief. See 2 Samuel 16:21–22.

2 Samuel 15:1–19

Absalom revolted against David eleven years after Amnon violated Tamar (compare 2 Samuel 13:23, 38; 14:28; 15:7). This was around the twenty-fifth year of David's thirty-three-year rule in Jerusalem.

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2 Samuel 16:21–22
Ahithophel replied, “Sleep with your father’s concubines, whom he has left to take care of the palace. When all Israel hears that you have become a stench to your father, then the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.”
2 Samuel 20:3
When David returned to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines he had left to take care of the palace, and he placed them in a house under guard. He provided for them, but he no longer slept with them. They were confined until the day of their death, living as widows.
Psalm 3:1
A Psalm of David, when he fled from his son Absalom. O LORD, how my foes have increased! How many rise up against me!
Romans 12:2
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.
1 Samuel 25:42
So Abigail hurried and got on a donkey, and attended by five of her maidens, she followed David’s messengers and became his wife.
2 Samuel 12:11
This is what the LORD says: ‘I will raise up adversity against you from your own house. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to another, and he will lie with them in broad daylight.
1 Samuel 25:27
Now let this gift your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow you.
Judges 4:10
…where he summoned Zebulun and Naphtali. Ten thousand men followed him, and Deborah also went with him.

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