1. 2 Samuel 3:7 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What is a concubine?

2 Samuel 3:7 (ESV)

7 Now Saul had a concubine whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. And Ish-bosheth said to Abner, “Why have you gone in to my father’s concubine?”

A concubine is equivalent to a girlfriend or a mistress, a woman who is not a wife but still romantically engaged and connected with a man. In this case the woman is called Rizpah and she was close to Saul.

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