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So they looked through all the land of Israel for a beautiful girl, and found Abishag the Shunammite. And they brought her to the king. The girl was very beautiful. She became the king’s nurse and helped him. But the king did not have sex with her.

Now Haggith’s son Adonijah honored himself, saying, “I will be king.” So he made war-wagons and horsemen ready for himself, with fifty men to run in front of him.

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