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Now when David arrived at his palace in Jerusalem, the king took the ten women, the concubines whom he had left to take care of the palace, and put them in a guarded house. He provided for them but he did not cohabit with them. So they were confined until the day they died, living in widowhood.

Then the king said to Amasa, “Summon to me the men of Judah within three days and be here yourself.” So Amasa went to summon Judah but he took longer than the set time that he had allotted him.

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