20:3 Then David went to his palace 6 in Jerusalem. The king took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace and placed them under confinement. 7 Though he provided for their needs, he did not have sexual relations with them. 8 They remained in confinement until the day they died, living out the rest of their lives as widows.
1 tn Heb “raise up against you disaster.”
2 tn Heb “house” (so NAB, NRSV); NCV, TEV, CEV “family.”
3 tn Or “friend.”
4 tn Heb “will lie with” (so NIV, NRSV); TEV “will have intercourse with”; CEV, NLT “will go to bed with.”
5 tn Heb “in the eyes of this sun.”
6 tn Heb “house.”
7 tn Heb “and he placed them in a guarded house.”
8 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.”