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2. Quest. v. 3. Of the shutting vp of Dauids Concu∣bines.
1. Dauid inflicteth a treble punishment vpon them, for yeelding to the incestuous lust of Abshalom; for they should rather haue died, then condescended vnto him: first they are sequestred and shut vp from all company, that none should come at them least beeing seene abroad, the memorie of that vncleane fact should haue beene there∣by reuiued. Borrh. Secondly, Dauid doth forbeare their companie, because it was not fit, after they were defiled by his sonne, that they should haue accesse to him. Osiand. Thirdly, they are enioyned this penance of widowhood during life, that they might lament and repent them of their sinne. Pellican.
2. Some thinke, that because it is added, in widowhood for life, that they continued in widowes estate onely during the life of Dauid: Vatabl. and so hee distinguisheth, betweene viduitatem vitae, widowhood of life, and viduitatem mortis, widowhood of death, that is, after the husbands death: so also the Chalde, they were called widdowes, viri superstitis, of the husband yet suruiuing. But it is euident rather by the text, that they were thus enclosed and sequestred vnto the day of their death. Iun.
3. Yet Dauid nourished and kept them with all things necessarie, because he con∣sidered, that they were forced thereunto: Osiand. Ioseph. But yet Dauid should as well or rather haue punished those, which were either causes, or cōsenters to this disgrace: of which number. Amasa was one, who beeing then a cheife man about Abshalom, was contented he should follow Achitophels wicked counsell, and was himselfe a be∣holder of it. Pellican.