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So all the men of Israel went up from following David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah clave unto their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem.

And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and provided them with sustenance, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, [a]living in widowhood.

Then said the king to Amasa, Call me the men of Judah together within three days, and be thou here present.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 20:3 Hebrew in widowhood of life.