The woman was very beautiful; she took care of the king and waited on him, but the king had no sexual relations with her.
As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “I know what a beautiful woman you are.
Then they searched throughout Israel for a beautiful young woman and found Abishag, a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
Now Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith, put himself forward and said, “I will be king.” So he got chariots and horses ready, with fifty men to run ahead of him.
So he continued, “Please ask King Solomon—he will not refuse you—to give me Abishag the Shunammite as my wife.”
So she said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given in marriage to your brother Adonijah.”
But he did not consummate their marriage until she gave birth to a son. And he gave him the name Jesus.