keep

And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them downe to the ground: euen with two lines measured he, to put to death, and with one full line to keepe aliue: and so the Moabites became Dauids seruants, and brought gifts.

And the king went foorth, and all his houshold after him: and the King left tenne women, which were concubines, to keepe the house.

1611 marginal noteHeb. at his feete.

And Ahithophel said vnto Absalom, Goe in vnto thy fathers concubines, which he hath left to keepe the house, and all Israel shall heare that thou art abhorred of thy father, then shall the hands of all that are with thee be strong.

¶ Now Absalom in his life time had taken and reared vp for himselfe a pillar, which is in the Kings dale: for hee said, I haue no sonne to keepe my name in remembrance: And hee called the pillar after his owne name, and it is called vnto this day, Absaloms place.

1611 marginal noteGene. 14.17.

¶ And Dauid came to his house at Ierusalem, and the king tooke 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 vnto them: so they were shut vp vnto the day of their death, liuing in widowhood.

1611 marginal noteHebr. a house of ward.

1611 marginal noteHebr. bound.

1611 marginal noteHebr. in widowhood of life.

1611 marginal noteChap. 16.22.