2 Samuel 15:16

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

And the king went forth, and all his household after him. And the king left ten women, which were concubines, to keep the house.

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  • 2 Sam 16:21-22 : 21 And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father's concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear that thou art abhorred of thy father: then shall the hands of all that are with thee be strong. 22 So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.
  • 2 Sam 20:3 : 3 And 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 ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.
  • Ps 3:1 : 1 A alm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.
  • Rom 12:2 : 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may pve what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
  • Judg 4:10 : 10 And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went up with ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him.
  • 1 Sam 25:27 : 27 And now this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord.
  • 1 Sam 25:42 : 42 And Abigail hasted, and arose, and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.
  • 2 Sam 12:11 : 11 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.

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    17And the king went forth, and all the people after him, and tarried in a place that was far off.

    18And all his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men which came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.

  • 2 Sam 20:2-3
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    2So every man of Israel went up from after David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah clave unto their king, from Jordan even to Jerusalem.

    3And 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 ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.

  • 2 Sam 15:15
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    15And the king's servants said unto the king, Behold, thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint.

  • Esth 2:13-14
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    13Then thus came every maiden unto the king; whatsoever she dired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women unto the king's house.

    14In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's chamberlain, which kept the concubin: she came in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by name.

  • 2 Sam 13:17
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    17Then he called his servant that ministered unto him, and said, Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.

  • 2 Sam 14:8
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    8And the king said unto the woman, Go to thine house, and I will give charge concerning thee.

  • 1 Kgs 3:16-17
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    16Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.

    17And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.

  • 1 Kgs 11:3
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    3And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.

  • 2 Sam 5:13
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    13And David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron: and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.

  • 2 Chr 12:11
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    11And when the king entered into the house of the LORD, the guard came and fetched them, and brought them again into the guard chamber.

  • 2 Kgs 24:14-15
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    14And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.

    15And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

  • Zech 12:14
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    14All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.

  • 2 Sam 16:21-22
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    21And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father's concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear that thou art abhorred of thy father: then shall the hands of all that are with thee be strong.

    22So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 14:28
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    28And it was so, when the king went into the house of the LORD, that the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.

  • Song 6:8
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    8There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.

  • Esth 2:2
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    2Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king:

  • 2 Sam 11:9
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    9But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.

  • 2 Sam 15:9
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    9And the king said unto him, Go in peace. So he arose, and went to Hebron.

  • 1 Kgs 1:15
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    15And Bath-sheba went in unto the king into the chamber: and the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite ministered unto the king.

  • 2 Chr 21:17
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    17And they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.

  • 1 Kgs 11:15
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    15For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male in Edom;

  • Judg 19:2
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    2And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him unto her father's house to Beth-lehem-judah, and was there four whole months.

  • 2 Sam 14:13
    68%

    13And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God? for the king doth speak this thing as one which is faulty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished.

  • 2 Chr 8:15
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  • 1 Kgs 10:4-5
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    4And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom, and the house that he had built,

    5And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.

  • 2 Chr 9:12
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    12And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which she had brought unto the king. So she turned, and went away to her own land, she and her servants.

  • 2 Sam 19:17
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    17And there were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went over Jordan before the king.

  • 2 Sam 13:27
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    27But Absalom pressed him, that he let Amnon and all the king's sons go with him.

  • Jer 29:2
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    2(After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and usalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths, were departed from usalem;)

  • 1 Kgs 10:13
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  • 1 Kgs 11:1
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  • Judg 19:10
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    10But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus, which is Jerusalem; and there were with him two asses saddled, his concubine also was with him.

  • Esth 1:10
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    1And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him.

  • 2 Sam 20:7
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    7And there went out after him Joab's men, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men: and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.