2 Samuel 15:16

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • 2 Sam 16:21-22 : 21 Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Go in to your father's concubines, that he has left to keep the house. Then all Israel will hear that you are abhorred by your father. Then the hands of all who are with you will be strong." 22 So they spread Absalom a tent on the top of the house; and Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.
  • 2 Sam 20:3 : 3 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.
  • Ps 3:1 : 1 Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.
  • Rom 12:2 : 2 Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
  • Judg 4:10 : 10 Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali together to Kedesh; and there went up ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him.
  • 1 Sam 25:27 : 27 Now this present which your servant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord.
  • 1 Sam 25:42 : 42 Abigail hurried, and arose, and rode on a donkey, with five ladies of hers who followed her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.
  • 2 Sam 12:11 : 11 "This is what Yahweh says: 'Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

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  • 2 Sam 15:17-18
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    81%

    17 The king went forth, and all the people after him; and they stayed in Beth Merhak.

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

  • 2 Sam 20:2-3
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    80%

    2 So all the men of Israel went up from following David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah joined with their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem.

    3 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.

  • 2 Sam 15:15
    78%

    15 The king's servants said to the king, "Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king chooses."

  • Esth 2:13-14
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    72%

    13 The young woman then came to the king like this: whatever she desired was given her to go with her out of the women's house to the king's house.

    14 In the evening she went, and on the next day she returned into the second women's house, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's eunuch, who kept the concubines. She came in to the king no more, unless the king delighted in her, and she was called by name.

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

  • 2 Sam 14:8
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    8 The king said to the woman, "Go to your house, and I will give a command concerning you."

  • 1 Kgs 3:16-17
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    70%

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

    17 The one woman said, "Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her in the house.

  • 1 Kgs 11:3
    70%

    3 He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.

  • 2 Sam 5:13
    69%

    13 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
    69%

    11 It was so, that as often as the king entered into the house of Yahweh, the guard came and bore them, and brought them back into the guard room.

  • 2 Kgs 24:14-15
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    69%

    14 He carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths; none remained, except the poorest sort of the people of the land.

    15 He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon; and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the chief men of the land, carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

  • Zech 12:14
    69%

    14 all the families who remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.

  • 2 Sam 16:21-22
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    69%

    21 Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Go in to your father's concubines, that he has left to keep the house. Then all Israel will hear that you are abhorred by your father. Then the hands of all who are with you will be strong."

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

  • 1 Kgs 14:28
    69%

    28 It was so, that as often as the king went into the house of Yahweh, the guard bore them, and brought them back into the guard room.

  • Song 6:8
    68%

    8 There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, and virgins without number.

  • Esth 2:2
    68%

    2 Then the king's servants who served him said, "Let beautiful young virgins be sought for the king.

  • 2 Sam 11:9
    68%

    9 But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and didn't go down to his house.

  • 2 Sam 15:9
    68%

    9 The king said to him, "Go in peace." So he arose, and went to Hebron.

  • 1 Kgs 1:15
    68%

    15 Bathsheba went in to the king into the room. The king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite was ministering to the king.

  • 2 Chr 21:17
    68%

    17 and they came up against Judah, and broke 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, except Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.

  • 1 Kgs 11:15
    68%

    15 For it happened, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the army was gone up to bury the slain, and had struck every male in Edom

  • Judg 19:2
    68%

    2 His concubine played the prostitute against him, and went away from him to her father's house to Bethlehem Judah, and was there the space of four months.

  • 2 Sam 14:13
    68%

    13 The woman said, "Why then have you devised such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring home again his banished one.

  • 2 Chr 8:15
    68%

    15 They didn't depart from the commandment of the king to the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.

  • 1 Kgs 10:4-5
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    68%

    4 When the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,

    5 and the food of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their clothing, and his cup bearers, and his ascent by which he went up to the house of Yahweh; there was no more spirit in her.

  • 2 Chr 9:12
    68%

    12 King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, besides that which she had brought to the king. So she turned, and went to her own land, she and her servants.

  • 2 Sam 19:17
    67%

    17 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 through the Jordan in the presence of the king.

  • 2 Sam 13:27
    67%

    27 But Absalom pressed him, and he let Amnon and all the king's sons go with him.

  • Jer 29:2
    67%

    2 (after that Jeconiah the king, and the queen mother, and the eunuchs, [and] the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the craftsmen, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem),

  • 1 Kgs 10:13
    67%

    13 King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, besides that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned, and went to her own land, she and her servants.

  • 1 Kgs 11:1
    67%

    1 Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;

  • Judg 19:10
    67%

    10 But the man wouldn't stay that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus (the same is Jerusalem): and there were with him a couple of donkeys saddled; his concubine also was with him.

  • Esth 1:10
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    10 On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcass, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,

  • 2 Sam 19:15
    66%

    15 So the king returned, and came to the Jordan. Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to bring the king over the Jordan.

  • 2 Chr 10:16
    66%

    16 When all Israel saw that the king didn't listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, "What portion have we in David? Neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse! Every man to your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David." So all Israel departed to their tents.

  • 2 Chr 17:19
    66%

    19 These were those who waited on the king, besides those whom the king put in the fortified cities throughout all Judah.

  • 1 Sam 30:9
    66%

    9 So David went, he and the six hundred men who were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those who were left behind stayed.

  • 2 Sam 14:24
    66%

    24 The king said, "Let him return to his own house, but let him not see my face." So Absalom returned to his own house, and didn't see the king's face.

  • Judg 19:28
    66%

    28 He said to her, "Get up, and let us be going!" but no one answered. Then he took her up on the donkey; and the man rose up, and went to his place.

  • 2 Sam 15:1
    66%

    1 It happened after this, that Absalom prepared him a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run before him.

  • 2 Sam 20:7
    66%

    7 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.