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So they searched for a beautiful girl throughout the territory of Israel, and found Abishag the [a]Shunammite, and brought her to the king. The girl was very beautiful; and she became the king’s nurse and served him, but the king [b]was not intimate with her.

Then Adonijah the son of [David’s wife] Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I [the eldest living son] will be king.” So [following Absalom’s example] he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 1:3 The town of Shunam was located within the territory of Issachar.
  2. 1 Kings 1:4 Lit did not know her.

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