◄ 1 Kings 1:3 ►
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Good News Translation
A search was made all over Israel for a beautiful young woman, and in Shunem they found such a woman named Abishag, and brought her to the king.

New Revised Standard Version
So they searched for a beautiful girl throughout all the territory of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.

New American Bible
So they sought for a beautiful girl throughout the territory of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunamite. So they brought her to the king.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So they sought a beautiful young woman, in all the coasts of Israel and they found Abisag, a Sunamitess, and brought her to the king.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

So they sought a beautiful young woman, in all the coasts of Israel and they found Abisag, a Sunamitess, and brought her to the king.

So

Esther 2:2,4 And the king's servants and his officers said: Let young women be sought for the king, virgins and beautiful, . . .

Abishag

1 Kings 2:17-15 And he said I pray thee speak to king Solomon (for he cannot deny thee any thing) to give me Abisag, the Sunamitess, to wife. . . .

Shunammite

Joshua 19:18 And his inheritance was Jezrael and Casaloth and Sunem,

1 Samuel 28:4 And the Philistines were gathered together, and came and encamped in Sunam: and Saul also gathered together all Israel, and came to Gelboe.

2 Kings 4:8,25 And there was a day when Eliseus passed by Sunam: now there was a great woman there, who detained him to eat bread: and as he passed often that way, he turned into her house to eat bread. . . .

Context
Abishag Cares for David
…2His servants therefore, said to him: Let us seek for our Lord the king, a young virgin, and let her stand before the king, and cherish him, and sleep in his bosom and warm our lord the king. 3So they sought a beautiful young woman, in all the coasts of Israel and they found Abisag, a Sunamitess, and brought her to the king.4And the damsel was exceedingly beautiful, and she slept with the king, and served him, but the king did not know her.…
Cross References
Joshua 19:18
And his inheritance was Jezrael and Casaloth and Sunem,

1 Samuel 28:4
And the Philistines were gathered together, and came and encamped in Sunam: and Saul also gathered together all Israel, and came to Gelboe.

1 Kings 1:2
His servants therefore, said to him: Let us seek for our Lord the king, a young virgin, and let her stand before the king, and cherish him, and sleep in his bosom and warm our lord the king.

1 Kings 1:4
And the damsel was exceedingly beautiful, and she slept with the king, and served him, but the king did not know her.

1 Kings 2:17
And he said I pray thee speak to king Solomon (for he cannot deny thee any thing) to give me Abisag, the Sunamitess, to wife.

1 Kings 2:21
And she said: Let Abisag, the Sunamitess, be given to Adonias, thy brother, to wife.

1 Kings 1:2
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