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Now the young woman was very beautiful; and she became the king’s nurse and attended him, but the king did not [a]know her.

Now (A)Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king.” So (B)he prepared for himself a chariot and horsemen and fifty men as runners before him. But his father had never [b]grieved him at any time by asking, “Why have you done so?” And he was also a very handsome man in form, and [c](C)he was born after Absalom.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 1:4 Or have relations with
  2. 1 Kings 1:6 Lit pained him
  3. 1 Kings 1:6 Lit she gave him birth