1 Kings 1:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³ So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts 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

Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and cherish him; and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat.

1 Kings 1:4

And the damsel was very fair; and she cherished the king, and ministered to him; but the king knew her not.

2 Kings 4:25

So she went, and came unto the man of God to mount Carmel. And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, Behold, yonder is the Shunammite:

2 Kings 4:8

And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.

Esther 2:2

Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king:

Esther 2:4

and let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king, and he did so.

Joshua 19:18

And their border was unto Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem;

1 Samuel 28:4

And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they pitched in Gilboa.