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14 While you are still speaking with the king, I will arrive and confirm your words.’ ”

15 So Bathsheba went into the king’s chamber. Now the king was very old, and Abishag the Shunamite served the king.[a] 16 Bathsheba bowed down, paying obeisance to the king, and the king said, “What do you want?”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 1:15 The relationship between David and Bathsheba has changed dramatically since the adultery and murder that had started it. He is now an old man with another woman in her place, but she comes to intercede on behalf of her son Solomon.