John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 3. And David came to his house at Jerusalem , etc.] His palace there, which was in that part of the city called the fort of Zion, and city of David: and the king took the ten women [his] concubines, whom he had left to keep the house ; when he fled from Jerusalem because of Absalom, ( Samuel 15:16); and put them in ward ; partly as a punishment for easily yielding to the lust of Absalom, and partly that they might not be seen, which would bring to remembrance his sin: and fed them ; he did not put them to death, nor put them away, but kept them thus confined, and made a proper provision for them, not suffering them to marry any other, and be maintained by them: but went not in unto them : into their apartments to lie with them, having been defiled by his son, ( 2 Samuel 16:22); so they were shut up unto the day of their death ; kept in the ward till they died: living in widowhood ; neither used by the king as his concubines, as they had been before, nor suffered to many any other; or “in the widowhood of life” f333 , which is so expressed, to distinguish it from widowhood made by death; this was such sort of widowhood as obtained while their husband was living; so the Targum, “widows of their husband alive,” or remaining.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-3 - One trial arises after another for our good, till we reach the plac where sin and sorrow are for ever done away. Angry disputer misunderstand or misconstrue one another's words; proud men will have every thing their own way, or wholly refuse their assistance. The favour of the many is not to be depended upon; and what have others to expect, when Hosanna to the Son of David was soon changed to Crucif him, crucify him?
Original Hebrew ויבא935 דוד1732 אל413 ביתו1004 ירושׁלם3389 ויקח3947 המלך4428 את853 עשׂר6235 נשׁים802 פלגשׁים6370 אשׁר834 הניח3240 לשׁמר8104 הבית1004 ויתנם5414 בית1004 משׁמרת4931 ויכלכלם3557 ואליהם413 לא3808 בא935 ותהיינה1961 צררות6887 עד5704 יום3117 מתן4194 אלמנות491 חיות׃2424
