2 Samuel 12:11

12:11 This is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on you ¹  from inside your own household! ²  Right before your eyes I will take your wives and hand them over to your companion. ³  He will have sexual relations with ⁴  your wives in broad daylight! ⁵ 

2 Samuel 15:16

15:16 So the king and all the members of his royal court ⁶  set out on foot, though the king left behind ten concubines ⁷  to attend to the palace.

2 Samuel 20:3

20:3 Then David went to his palace ⁸  in Jerusalem. The king took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace and placed them under confinement. ⁹  Though he provided for their needs, he did not have sexual relations with them. ¹⁰  They remained in confinement until the day they died, living out the rest of their lives as widows.

[12:11]  ¹ tn Heb “raise up against you disaster.”

[12:11]  ² tn Heb “house” (so NAB, NRSV); NCV, TEV, CEV “family.”

[12:11]  ³ tn Or “friend.”

[12:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “will lie with” (so NIV, NRSV); TEV “will have intercourse with”; CEV, NLT “will go to bed with.”

[12:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “in the eyes of this sun.”

[15:16]  ⁶ tn Heb “and all his house.”

[15:16]  ⁷ tn Heb “women, concubines.”

[20:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “house.”

[20:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “and he placed them in a guarded house.”

[20:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “he did not come to them”; NAB “has no further relations with them”; NIV “did not lie with them”; TEV “did not have intercourse with them”; NLT “would no longer sleep with them.”