Discovery Box2 Samuel 11:11 
Context11:11 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
Context12:11 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
Context20:3 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.
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.”
