¹⁶ So the king went out and all his household ^[a]with him. But ^(A)the king left ten concubines to keep the house.

³ Then David came to his house at Jerusalem, and ^(A)the king took the ten women, the concubines whom he had left to keep the house, and placed them under guard and provided them with sustenance, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up until the day of their death, living as widows.