Sāmǔĕrjìxià 20:3

3 Dàwèi wáng lái dào Yēlùsǎlĕng , jìn le gōngdiàn , jiù bǎ cóng qián liú xià kānshǒu gōngdiàn de shí gè fēi pín jīn bì zaì lĕng gōng , yǎnghuo tāmen , bù yǔ tāmen qīnjìn . tāmen rútóng guǎfu beì jīn , zhídào sǐ de rìzi .

Sāmǔĕrjìxià 20:3 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 20:3

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

and the king took the ten women [his] concubines, whom he had left to
keep the house;
when he fled from Jerusalem because of Absalom, ( 2 Samuel 15:16 ) ;

and put them in ward;
partly as a punishment for easily yielding to the lust of Absalom, and partly that they might not be seen, which would bring to remembrance his sin:

and fed them;
he did not put them to death, nor put them away, but kept them thus confined, and made a proper provision for them, not suffering them to marry any other, and be maintained by them:

but went not in unto them:
into their apartments to lie with them, having been defiled by his son, ( 2 Samuel 16:22 ) ;

so they were shut up unto the day of their death;
kept in the ward till they died:

living in widowhood;
neither used by the king as his concubines, as they had been before, nor suffered to many any other; or "in the widowhood of life" ^F15, which is so expressed, to distinguish it from widowhood made by death; this was such sort of widowhood as obtained while their husband was living; so the Targum,

``widows of their husband alive,''

or remaining.

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 (twyx twnmla) "in viduitate vitae", Pagninus, Montanus.

Sāmǔĕrjìxià 20:3 In-Context

1 Zaì nàli qià qiǎo yǒu yī gè fĕi tú , míng jiào Shìbā , shì Biànyǎmǐn rén bǐ jī lì de érzi . tā chuī jiǎo , shuō , wǒmen yǔ Dàwèi wú fēn , yǔYēxī de érzi wú shè . Yǐsèliè rén nǎ , nǐmen gè huí gè jiā qù ba .

2 Yúshì Yǐsèliè rén dōu líkāi Dàwèi , gēnsuí bǐ jī lì de érzi Shìbā . dàn Yóudà rén cóng Yuēdànhé zhídào Yēlùsǎlĕng , dōu jǐn jǐn gēnsuí tāmende wáng .

3 Dàwèi wáng lái dào Yēlùsǎlĕng , jìn le gōngdiàn , jiù bǎ cóng qián liú xià kānshǒu gōngdiàn de shí gè fēi pín jīn bì zaì lĕng gōng , yǎnghuo tāmen , bù yǔ tāmen qīnjìn . tāmen rútóng guǎfu beì jīn , zhídào sǐ de rìzi .

4 Wáng duì yà Mǎsā shuō , nǐ yào zaì sān rì zhī neì jiāng Yóudà rén zhāo jù le lái , nǐ yĕ huí dào zhèlǐ lái .

5 Yà Mǎsā jiù qù zhāo jù Yóudà rén , què dān yán guō le wáng suǒ xiàn de rìqī .