11 This is what Jehovah has said, ‘Here I am raising up against you calamity out of your own house;+ and I will take your wives under your own eyes and give them to your fellowman,+ and he will certainly lie down with your wives under the eyes of this sun.+

21 Then A·hithʹo·phel said to Abʹsa·lom: “Have relations with the concubines of your father,+ whom he left behind to take care of the house.+ And all Israel will certainly hear that you have made yourself foul-smelling+ to your father,+ and the hands+ of all those who are with you will certainly become strong.”

3 Eventually David came to his house at Jerusalem.+ Then the king took the ten women,+ the concubines whom he had left behind to take care of the house, and he put them in a house of confinement, but he kept on supplying food to them. And with them he did not have any relations,+ but they continued shut up closely until the day of their dying, in a widowhood with a living [husband].*