¹⁶ Then the king set out, and his entire household followed him. But he left behind ten concubines to take care of the palace.

³ When David came to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines he had left to take care of the palace and placed them under guard.^(A) He provided for them, but he was not intimate with them. They were confined until the day of their death, living as widows.