The maiden was very beautiful; and she became the king's nurse and ministered to him; but the king knew her not.
When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “I know that you are a woman beautiful to behold;
So they sought for a beautiful maiden throughout all the territory of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
Now Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king”; and he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
And he said, “Pray ask King Solomon—he will not refuse you—to give me Abishag the Shunammite as my wife.”
She said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as his wife.”
but knew her not until she had borne a son; and he called his name Jesus.