2 Samuel 20:1-3
Names of God Bible
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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- 2 Samuel 20:3 Hebrew “concubines/wives”; a concubine is considered a wife except she has fewer rights under the law.
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