Discovery Box2 Samuel 20:3 
Context20:3 Then David went to his palace 1 in Jerusalem. The king took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace and placed them under confinement. 2 Though he provided for their needs, he did not have sexual relations with them. 3 They remained in confinement until the day they died, living out the rest of their lives as widows.
2 Samuel 21:10
Context21:10 Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the rain fell on them, 4 she did not allow the birds of the air to feed 5 on them by day, nor the wild animals 6 by night.
2 Samuel 23:10
Context23:10 he stood his ground 7 and fought the Philistines until his hand grew so tired that it 8 seemed stuck to his sword. The Lord gave a great victory on that day. When the army returned to him, the only thing left to do was to plunder the corpses.
1 tn Heb “house.”
2 tn Heb “and he placed them in a guarded house.”
3 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.”
4 tn Heb “until water was poured on them from the sky.”
5 tn Heb “rest.”
6 tn Heb “the beasts of the field.”
7 tn Heb “arose.”
8 tn Heb “his hand.”
