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2 Samuel 20:3

Listen to 2 Samuel 20:3
3 Cuando el rey David llegó a su palacio en Jerusalén, sacó a las diez concubinas que había dejado a cargo del palacio y las puso bajo vigilancia. Siguió manteniéndolas, pero no volvió a acostarse con ellas. Hasta el día de su muerte, quedaron encerradas y viviendo como si fueran viudas.

2 Samuel 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.


FOOTNOTES:

F15 (twyx twnmla) "in viduitate vitae", Pagninus, Montanus.
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2 Samuel 20:3 In-Context

1 Por allí se encontraba un malvado que se llamaba Sabá hijo de Bicrí, que era benjaminita. Dando un toque de trompeta, se puso a gritar:«¡Pueblo de Israel, todos a sus casas,pues no tenemos parte con David,ni herencia con el hijo de Isaí!»
2 Entonces todos los israelitas abandonaron a David y siguieron a Sabá hijo de Bicrí. Los de Judá, por su parte, se mantuvieron fieles a su rey y lo acompañaron desde el Jordán hasta Jerusalén.
3 Cuando el rey David llegó a su palacio en Jerusalén, sacó a las diez concubinas que había dejado a cargo del palacio y las puso bajo vigilancia. Siguió manteniéndolas, pero no volvió a acostarse con ellas. Hasta el día de su muerte, quedaron encerradas y viviendo como si fueran viudas.
4 Luego el rey le ordenó a Amasá: «Moviliza a las tropas de Judá, y preséntate aquí con ellas dentro de tres días».
5 Amasá salió para movilizar a las tropas, pero no cumplió con el plazo.

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