0 How did David punish his ten concubines for being publicly raped by his son?

I have trodden the winepress alone ... for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. Isaiah 63:3

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How did David punish his ten concubines for being publicly raped by his son?


By refusing to have sex with them and forcing them to "keep house" for him for the rest of their lives

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. 2 Samuel 20:3

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