13 Meanwhile (A)David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, after he came from Hebron; and more sons and daughters were born to David.

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11 Thus says the Lord, ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you from your own household; (A)I will even take your wives before your eyes and give them to your companion, and he will lie with your wives in [a]broad daylight.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 12:11 Lit the sight of this sun

(A)He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away. For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away after other gods; and (B)his heart was not [a]wholly devoted to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father had been.

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  1. 1 Kings 11:4 Lit complete with