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And King David was old and advanced in years; they covered him with [bed]clothes, but he could not get warm.

So his servants [the [a]physicians] said to him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin, and let her wait on and be useful to the king; let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may get warm.

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  1. 1 Kings 1:2 Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 14, 3.

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