SEV Biblia, Chapter 20:3
Y luego que llegó David a su casa en Jerusalén, tomó el rey las diez mujeres concubinas que había dejado para guardar la casa, y las puso en una casa bajo guardia, y les dio de comer; pero nunca más entró a ellas, sino que quedaron encerradas hasta que murieron en viudez de por vida.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 20:3
Verse 3. The ten women] He could not well divorce them; he could not punish them, as they were not in the transgression; he could no more be familiar with them, because they had been defiled by his son; and to have married them to other men might have been dangerous to the state: therefore he shut them up and fed them-made them quite comfortable, and they continued as widows to their death.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 3. And David came to his house at Jerusalem , etc.] His palace there, which was in that part of the city called the fort of Zion, and city of David: and the king took the ten women [his] concubines, whom he had left to keep the house ; when he fled from Jerusalem because of Absalom, ( Samuel 15:16); and put them in ward ; partly as a punishment for easily yielding to the lust of Absalom, and partly that they might not be seen, which would bring to remembrance his sin: and fed them ; he did not put them to death, nor put them away, but kept them thus confined, and made a proper provision for them, not suffering them to marry any other, and be maintained by them: but went not in unto them : into their apartments to lie with them, having been defiled by his son, ( 2 Samuel 16:22); so they were shut up unto the day of their death ; kept in the ward till they died: living in widowhood ; neither used by the king as his concubines, as they had been before, nor suffered to many any other; or “in the widowhood of life” f333 , which is so expressed, to distinguish it from widowhood made by death; this was such sort of widowhood as obtained while their husband was living; so the Targum, “widows of their husband alive,” or remaining.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-3 - One trial arises after another for our good, till we reach the plac where sin and sorrow are for ever done away. Angry disputer misunderstand or misconstrue one another's words; proud men will have every thing their own way, or wholly refuse their assistance. The favour of the many is not to be depended upon; and what have others to expect, when Hosanna to the Son of David was soon changed to Crucif him, crucify him?
Original Hebrew
ויבא 935 דוד 1732 אל 413 ביתו 1004 ירושׁלם 3389 ויקח 3947 המלך 4428 את 853 עשׂר 6235 נשׁים 802 פלגשׁים 6370 אשׁר 834 הניח 3240 לשׁמר 8104 הבית 1004 ויתנם 5414 בית 1004 משׁמרת 4931 ויכלכלם 3557 ואליהם 413 לא 3808 בא 935 ותהיינה 1961 צררות 6887 עד 5704 יום 3117 מתן 4194 אלמנות 491 חיות׃ 2424
