2 Samuel 11:11

11:11 Uriah replied to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah reside in temporary shelters, and my lord Joab and my lord’s soldiers are camping in the open field. Should I go to my house to eat and drink and have marital relations ¹  with my wife? As surely as you are alive, ²  I will not do this thing!”

2 Samuel 12:11

12:11 This is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on you ³  from inside your own household! ⁴  Right before your eyes I will take your wives and hand them over to your companion. ⁵  He will have sexual relations with ⁶  your wives in broad daylight! ⁷ 

2 Samuel 20:3

20:3 Then David went to his palace ⁸  in Jerusalem. The king took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace and placed them under confinement. ⁹  Though he provided for their needs, he did not have sexual relations with them. ¹⁰  They remained in confinement until the day they died, living out the rest of their lives as widows.

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¹ tn Heb “and lay.”

² tn Heb “as you live and as your soul lives.”

³ tn Heb “raise up against you disaster.”

⁴ tn Heb “house” (so NAB, NRSV); NCV, TEV, CEV “family.”

⁵ tn Or “friend.”

⁶ tn Heb “will lie with” (so NIV, NRSV); TEV “will have intercourse with”; CEV, NLT “will go to bed with.”

⁷ tn Heb “in the eyes of this sun.”

⁸ tn Heb “house.”

⁹ tn Heb “and he placed them in a guarded house.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “he did not come to them”; NAB “has no further relations with them”; NIV “did not lie with them”; TEV “did not have intercourse with them”; NLT “would no longer sleep with them.”