1 Kings 1:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ So they searched for a beautiful young woman throughout all the territory of Israel and found Abishag the Shunammite and brought her to the king.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ So they sought a fair maiden through all the territory of Israel and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the borders of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.

Common English Bible

³ So they looked in every corner of Israel until they found Abishag from Shunem. They brought her to the king.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And so they sought a beautiful young woman in all the parts of Israel. And they found Abishag, a Shunammite, and they led her to the king.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ 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.

1 Kings 1:3 Cross References

1 Kings 1:2

So his servants said to him, “Let a young virgin be sought for my lord the king, and let her wait on the king and be his attendant; let her lie in your bosom, so that my lord the king may be warm.”

1 Kings 1:4

The young woman was very beautiful. She became the king’s attendant and served him, but the king did not know her sexually.

2 Kings 4:25

So she set out and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her coming, he said to Gehazi his servant, “Look, there is the Shunammite woman;

2 Kings 4:8

One day Elisha was passing through Shunem, where a wealthy woman lived, who urged him to have a meal. So whenever he passed that way, he would stop there for a meal.

Esther 2:2

Then the king’s servants who attended him said, “Let beautiful young virgins be sought out for the king.

Esther 2:4

And let the young woman who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.” This pleased the king, and he did so.

Joshua 19:18

Its territory included Jezreel, Chesulloth, Shunem,

1 Samuel 28:4

The Philistines assembled and came and encamped at Shunem. Saul gathered all Israel, and they encamped at Gilboa.