2 Samuel 15:16

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So the king set out, and all his household followed him on foot. But the king left behind ten concubines to take care of the palace.

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  • 2 Sam 16:21-22 : 21 Ahithophel answered, "Sleep with your father’s concubines, whom he left to care for the palace. Then all Israel will hear that you have made yourself obnoxious to your father, and the hands of everyone with you will be strengthened." 22 So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he slept with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.
  • 2 Sam 20:3 : 3 When David returned to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines he had left to take care of the house and placed them in confinement, providing for them but no longer going to them. They remained confined like widows until the day of their death.
  • Ps 3:1 : 1 A psalm of David, composed when he fled from his son Absalom.
  • Rom 12:2 : 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—His good, pleasing, and perfect will.
  • Judg 4:10 : 10 Barak summoned Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh, and ten thousand men followed him on foot, and Deborah went up with him.
  • 1 Sam 25:27 : 27 Now let this gift that your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow my lord.
  • 1 Sam 25:42 : 42 Abigail quickly got on a donkey, accompanied by five of her young women as attendants. She followed David’s messengers and became his wife.
  • 2 Sam 12:11 : 11 This is what the Lord says: 'Look, I am going to bring disaster upon you from within your own household. I will take your wives before your very eyes and give them to someone close to you, who will sleep with them in broad daylight.

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  • 2 Sam 15:17-18
    2 verses
    81%

    17The king went out with all the people following him, and they stopped at a place some distance away.

    18All his servants passed by him, along with all the Kerethites, Pelethites, and six hundred Gittites who had come with him from Gath, marching past in front of the king.

  • 2 Sam 20:2-3
    2 verses
    80%

    2So all the men of Israel deserted David to follow Sheba, son of Bichri. But the men of Judah stayed loyal to their king, from the Jordan all the way to Jerusalem.

    3When David returned to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines he had left to take care of the house and placed them in confinement, providing for them but no longer going to them. They remained confined like widows until the day of their death.

  • 2 Sam 15:15
    78%

    15The king’s servants replied to him, 'Your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king chooses.'

  • Esth 2:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13the young woman would go to the king, and she was given whatever she requested to take with her from the harem to the king’s palace.

    14She would go in the evening, and in the morning she would return to a second harem under the custody of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch in charge of the concubines. She would not go to the king again unless he delighted in her and summoned her by name.

  • 2 Sam 13:17
    71%

    17He called his servant who attended him and said, 'Throw this woman out of my presence and bolt the door after her.'

  • 2 Sam 14:8
    70%

    8Then the king said to the woman, "Go home, and I will issue a command on your behalf."

  • 1 Kgs 3:16-17
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    70%

    16Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.

    17One of them said, 'My lord, this woman and I live in the same house, and I gave birth to a child while she was there with me.'

  • 1 Kgs 11:3
    70%

    3He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away.

  • 2 Sam 5:13
    69%

    13After coming from Hebron, David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, and more sons and daughters were born to him.

  • 2 Chr 12:11
    69%

    11Whenever the king entered the house of the LORD, the guards would carry the shields, and then they would return them to the guardroom.

  • 2 Kgs 24:14-15
    2 verses
    69%

    14He deported all of Jerusalem—all the officials, the mighty warriors, ten thousand captives, as well as all the craftsmen and metalworkers. No one remained except for the poorest people of the land.

    15He took Jehoiachin captive to Babylon, along with the king's mother, the king's wives, his officials, and the elite of the land; he led them as exiles from Jerusalem to Babylon.

  • Zech 12:14
    69%

    14All the remaining families, each family by itself, and their wives by themselves.

  • 2 Sam 16:21-22
    2 verses
    69%

    21Ahithophel answered, "Sleep with your father’s concubines, whom he left to care for the palace. Then all Israel will hear that you have made yourself obnoxious to your father, and the hands of everyone with you will be strengthened."

    22So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he slept with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 14:28
    69%

    28Whenever the king went to the house of the LORD, the guards would carry the shields, and afterward, they would return them to the guardroom.

  • Song 6:8
    68%

    8There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and uncountable young women.

  • Esth 2:2
    68%

    2Then the king’s attendants said, "Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king.

  • 2 Sam 11:9
    68%

    9But Uriah slept at the entrance of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord and did not go down to his house.

  • 2 Sam 15:9
    68%

    9The king said to him, 'Go in peace.' So he got up and went to Hebron.

  • 1 Kgs 1:15
    68%

    15So Bathsheba went to see the king in his chamber. The king was very old, and Abishag the Shunammite was attending to him.

  • 2 Chr 21:17
    68%

    17They attacked Judah, invaded it, and carried away all the possessions found in the king's palace, along with his sons and wives. The only son left to him was Jehoahaz, his youngest son.

  • 1 Kgs 11:15
    68%

    15When David was in Edom and Joab, the commander of the army, went up to bury the dead, they killed every male in Edom.

  • Judg 19:2
    68%

    2But his concubine was unfaithful to him and left him, going to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. She stayed there for four months.

  • 2 Sam 14:13
    68%

    13The woman said, "Why have you devised such a thing against the people of God? By making this decision, the king is convicting himself for not bringing back his own banished son."

  • 2 Chr 8:15
    68%

    15They did not deviate from the king’s command concerning the priests and the Levites or any matter or the treasuries.

  • 1 Kgs 10:4-5
    2 verses
    68%

    4When the queen of Sheba saw all the wisdom of Solomon, the palace he had built,

    5the food on his table, the seating of his officials, the attendance of his servants in their attire, his cupbearers, and the burnt offerings he made at the temple of the LORD, she was overwhelmed.

  • 2 Chr 9:12
    68%

    12King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all she desired and asked for, in addition to what she had brought to the king. Then she turned and went back to her own land with her servants.

  • 2 Sam 19:17
    67%

    17Shimei son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim, hurried down with the men of Judah to meet King David.

  • 2 Sam 13:27
    67%

    27But Absalom pressed him, so he sent with him Amnon and the rest of the king's sons.

  • Jer 29:2
    67%

    2This was sent after King Jeconiah, the queen mother, the officials, the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the metalworkers were deported from Jerusalem.

  • 1 Kgs 10:13
    67%

    13King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all she desired and asked for, in addition to what he had already given her out of his royal bounty. Then she left and returned to her own land with her attendants.

  • 1 Kgs 11:1
    67%

    1King Solomon loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh's daughter—Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women.

  • Judg 19:10
    67%

    10But the man was unwilling to stay the night. He got up and left, arriving near Jebus (that is, Jerusalem). He had with him a pair of saddled donkeys and his concubine.

  • Esth 1:10
    67%

    10On the seventh day, when the king was in high spirits from the wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of King Ahasuerus,

  • 2 Sam 19:15
    66%

    15He won over the hearts of all the men of Judah as though they were one person. They sent word to the king, 'Return, you and all your men.'

  • 2 Chr 10:16
    66%

    16When all Israel realized that the king had not listened to them, they responded to the king, saying, "What share do we have in David? What inheritance is there for us in the son of Jesse? Every man to your tents, Israel! Now take care of your own house, David!" So all the Israelites returned to their homes.

  • 2 Chr 17:19
    66%

    19These were the men who served the king, besides those the king placed in the fortified cities throughout Judah.

  • 1 Sam 30:9
    66%

    9David and the six hundred men with him set out, and they came to the Besor Valley, where some stayed behind.

  • 2 Sam 14:24
    66%

    24But the king said, "He must go to his own house; he must not see my face." So Absalom went to his own house and did not see the king’s face.

  • Judg 19:28
    66%

    28He said to her, "Get up, let us go." But there was no answer. So he put her on the donkey, and the man set out for home.

  • 2 Sam 15:1
    66%

    1After this, Absalom acquired for himself a chariot, horses, and fifty men to run ahead of him.

  • 2 Sam 20:7
    66%

    7Joab's men, along with the Cherethites, the Pelethites, and all the mighty warriors, marched out from Jerusalem to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.