1 Kings 1:3 - Revised Standard Version CI

³ So they sought for a beautiful maiden 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.

1 Kings 1:3 Cross References

Joshua 19:18

Its territory included Jezreel, Chesulloth, Shunem,

Esther 2:4

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

Esther 2:2

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

2 Kings 4:8

One day Elisha went on to Shunem, where a wealthy woman lived, who urged him to eat some food. So whenever he passed that way, he would turn in there to eat food.

1 Samuel 28:4

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

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, yonder is the Shunammite;

1 Kings 1:2

Therefore his servants said to him, “Let a young maiden be sought for my lord the king, and let her wait upon the king, and be his nurse; let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may be warm.”

1 Kings 1:4

The maiden was very beautiful; and she became the king's nurse and ministered to him; but the king knew her not.