2 Samuel 20:3
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David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in custody, and provided them with sustenance, but didn't go in to them. So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood.
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Jerusalem was David’s royal city, where he confined Saul’s concubines after Absalom’s revolt. Gibeon, the Jordan, and Abel-beth-maacah mark the wider route of the rebellion’s aftermath: David had returned across the Jordan, Amasa
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2 Samuel 20:3 mentions Abel-beth-maacah, Gibeon, Jerusalem and Jordan.
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