1 Kings 1:3 - The Scriptures 1998

³ And they sought for a lovely young woman in all the border of Yisra’ĕ

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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

1 Kings 1:2

So his servants said to him, “Let them seek for our master the sovereign a young woman, a maiden, and she shall stand before the sovereign and be his companion, and shall lie in your bosom, so that our master the sovereign gets warm.”

1 Kings 1:4

And the young woman was very lovely. And she was a companion for the sovereign, and served him, but the sovereign did not know her.

2 Kings 4:25

And she went, and came to the man of Elohim at Mount Karmel. And it came to be, when the man of Elohim saw her at a distance, that he said to his servant Gĕ

2 Kings 4:8

And it came to be on a day that Elisha went to Shunĕ

Esther 2:2

Then the sovereign’s servants who attended him said, “Let lovely young maidens be sought for the sovereign,

Esther 2:4

“And let the young woman who pleases the sovereign be sovereigness instead of Vashti.” And the word pleased the sovereign, and he did so.

Joshua 19:18

And their border was toward Yizreʽ

1 Samuel 28:4

And the Philistines were gathered, and came and encamped at Shunĕ