1 Kings 1:3-5

GOD’S WORD Translation

³So they searched throughout Israel for a beautiful, young woman. They found Abishag from Shunem and brought her to the king. ⁴The woman was very beautiful. She became the king’s servant and took care of him, but the king did not make love to her.

Adonijah Plots to Become King

⁵Adonijah, son of Haggith,^[a] was very handsome. His mother gave birth to him after she had Absalom.^[b] Adonijah was boasting that he was king. So he got a chariot and horses and 50 men to run ahead of him.

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Footnotes

1:5 Adonijah’s mother was Haggith; his father was David. He was David’s oldest living son.
1:5 “very handsome … Absalom.” These words are the last part of verse 6 (in Hebrew). They have been placed at the beginning of verse 5 to express the complex Hebrew sentence structure more clearly in English.