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1 Kings 1:4

Modern English Version

She was very beautiful and cared for the king and ministered to him, but the king did not know her intimately.

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When he was getting near to Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “I know you are a beautiful woman.

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

Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king,” and he assembled chariots and horsemen and fifty men to run before him.

And he said, “Please speak to Solomon the king, for he will not refuse you, that he may give me Abishag the Shunammite as a wife.”

She said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given as a wife to Adonijah your brother.”

and did not know her until she had given birth to her firstborn Son. And he called His name Jesus.