2 Samuel 20:1-3
GOD’S WORD Translation
Sheba’s Rebellion
20 A good-for-nothing man by the name of Sheba, Bichri’s son, from the tribe of Benjamin happened to be at Gilgal. He blew a ram’s horn ⌞to announce⌟,
“We have no share in David’s kingdom.
We won’t receive an inheritance from Jesse’s son.
Everyone to his own tent, Israel!”
2 So all the people of Israel left David to follow Sheba, Bichri’s son. But the people of Judah remained loyal to their king ⌞on his way⌟ from the Jordan River to Jerusalem.
3 When David came to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines [a] he had left to look after the palace and put them in a house under guard. He provided for them but no longer slept with them. So they lived like widows in confinement until they died.
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- 20:3 Hebrew “concubines/wives”; a concubine is considered a wife except she has fewer rights under the law.
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