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2 Samuel 20:3

Listen to 2 Samuel 20:3
3 Y luego que llegó David a su casa en Jerusalén, tomó el rey las diez mujeres concubinas que había dejado para guardar la casa, y las puso en una casa bajo guardia, y les dio de comer; pero nunca más entró a ellas, sino que quedaron encerradas hasta que murieron en viudez de por vida.

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 Y acaeció estar allí un varón de Belial que se llamaba Seba, hijo de Bicri, varón de Jemini, el cual tocó la trompeta diciendo: No tenemos nosotros parte en David, ni heredad en el hijo de Isaí. Israel, ¡cada uno a sus estancias!
2 Así se fueron de en pos de David todos los varones de Israel, y seguían a Seba hijo de Bicri; mas los que eran de Judá fueron adheridos a su rey, desde el Jordán hasta Jerusalén.
3 Y luego que llegó David a su casa en Jerusalén, tomó el rey las diez mujeres concubinas que había dejado para guardar la casa, y las puso en una casa bajo guardia, y les dio de comer; pero nunca más entró a ellas, sino que quedaron encerradas hasta que murieron en viudez de por vida.
4 Y el rey dijo a Amasa: Júntame los varones de Judá para el tercer día, y hállate tú aquí presente.
5 Fue, pues , Amasa a juntar a Judá; pero se detuvo más del tiempo que le había sido señalado.

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