2 Samuel 20:2-4

GOD’S WORD Translation

² So all the people of Israel left David to follow Sheba, Bichri’s son. But the people of Judah remained loyal to their king ⌞on his way⌟ from the Jordan River to Jerusalem.

³ When David came to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines ^[a] he had left to look after the palace and put them in a house under guard. He provided for them but no longer slept with them. So they lived like widows in confinement until they died.

⁴ The king told Amasa, “Call the people of Judah together for me, and in three days be here yourself.”