2 Samuel 1:26

1:26 I grieve over you, my brother Jonathan!

You were very dear to me.

Your love was more special to me than the love of women.

2 Samuel 15:16

15:16 So the king and all the members of his royal court ¹  set out on foot, though the king left behind ten concubines ²  to attend to the palace.

2 Samuel 20:3

20:3 Then David went to his palace ³  in Jerusalem. The king took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace and placed them under confinement. ⁴  Though he provided for their needs, he did not have sexual relations with them. ⁵  They remained in confinement until the day they died, living out the rest of their lives as widows.

[15:16]  ¹ tn Heb “and all his house.”

[15:16]  ² tn Heb “women, concubines.”

[20:3]  ³ tn Heb “house.”

[20:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he placed them in a guarded house.”

[20:3]  ⁵ 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.”