1 Kings 1:1-2

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

The Struggle for the Succession

1 ^[a]Now King David was old and advanced in years; and although they covered him with clothes, he could not get warm. ² Therefore his servants said to him, “Let a young maiden be sought for my lord the king, and let her wait upon the king, and be his nurse; let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may be warm.”