2 Samuel 20:3

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.

Cross-references

2 Samuel 15:16 records David leaving ten concubines to keep the house—the same women he later confines in 20:3 after Absalom's defilement.

In 2 Samuel 16:21, Ahithophel advises Absalom to sleep with these concubines—the act that leads to their lifelong confinement here.

2 Samuel 16:22 records Absalom sleeping with the concubines publicly—the event that makes their confinement in 20:3 necessary.

Genesis 35:22 records Reuben sleeping with Jacob's concubine — a parallel to Absalom's defilement of David's concubines here.

1 Corinthians 5:1 condemns a man having his father's wife — a direct parallel to Absalom sleeping with David's concubines, showing the New Testament view.