Study it in the app“David came to his house in Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women, the concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in a house under guard; he provided for them, but to them he did not go in. So they were shut up until the day of their death, in widowhood for life.”
Davidדָוִדcameוַיָּבֹאtoאֶלhis houseבֵּיתוֹin Jerusalem;יְרוּשָׁלִַםand the kingוַ הַמֶּלֶךְtookיִּקַּחthe tenעֶשֶׂרwomen,נָשִׁיםthe concubines,פִּלַגְשִׁיםwhomאֲשֶׁרhe had leftהִנִּיחַto keepלִשְׁמֹרthe house,הַבַּיִתand put themוַיִּתְּנֵםin a houseבֵּיתunder guard;מִשְׁמֶרֶתhe provided for them,וַיְכַלְכְּלֵםbut to themוַאֲלֵיהֶםhe did notלֹאgo in.בָאSo they wereוַתִּהְיֶינָהshut upצְרֻרוֹתuntilעַדthe dayיוֹםof their death,מֻתָןin widowhoodאַלְמְנוּתfor life.חַיּוּת
David
David, youngest son of Jesse, of Bethlehem; the second king of Israel. The name means "beloved."
Where else “david” appearscome
To come, arrive: "days are coming".
Where else “yavo” appearshouse
A building to live in, or an enclosed place to keep something or someone.
Where else “bet” appearsJerusalem
See it on the mapWhere else “yerushalaim” appearsking
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appearsfetch
To take someone along, or go and fetch something.
Where else “yikach” appearsten
Ten.
Where else “eser” appearswoman
An adult female person: single, married or widowed.
Where else “nashim” appearsconcubine
Concubine: a woman joined to a man in a recognized way, but with fewer rights than the main wife. It was a custom of the time that the Bible tells without making it a model.
Where else “pilagshim” appearsleave
To leave something where it is and not take it away; not to hinder.
Where else “hiniach” appearsguard
To watch over, protect from all harm.
Where else “shemor” appearsmake
To make someone something: "I have made you a father".
Where else “yitne” appearswatch
A group of men who keep watch or serve in turns.
Where else “mishmeret” appearsprovide for
To feed someone, keep them alive.
Where else “yechalkle” appearsbe
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “tihyena” appearsdistress
To be in a tight spot, or to leave others no way out, like a besieged city.
Where else “tserurot” appearsday
The day, the hours of light, or a whole day.
Where else “yom” appearsdeath
The end of life: when someone stops breathing and returns to dust.
Where else “muta” appearswidowhood
Widowhood: the state of being a widow.
Where else “almnut” appearslife
Life; the fact of being alive. It appears only once in the Bible, in the phrase "widowhood of life" (2 Samuel 20:3): living as a widow while the husband is alive.
Where else “chayut” appearsThese are the concubines of 15:16 and 16:21-22. “Widowhood for life” is literally “widowhood of life”: they lived as widows although the king was alive.
Jerusalem
Today: Old City of Jerusalem
A city in the hills of Judea, about 22 miles (35 km) west of the Dead Sea and 35 miles (55 km) east of the Mediterranean.
David took it and made it his city (2 Sam 5:7); Solomon built the temple there (1 Kgs 8:1). Jesus was presented there, and the apostles' witness began from it (Luke 2:22; Acts 1:8).
2So all the men of Israel went up from after David and after Sheba son of Bichri; but the men of Judah clung to their king from the Jordan to Jerusalem.
3 · This verse (above)
4The king said to Amasa, “Call out for me the men of Judah within three days, and you be present here.”
