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1 Kings 1:1-3
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
1 Kings 1:1-3
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
The Struggle for the Succession
1 King David was old and advanced in years; and although they covered him with clothes, he could not get warm. 2 So his servants said to him, ‘Let a young virgin be sought for my lord the king, and let her wait on the king, and be his attendant; let her lie in your bosom, so that my lord the king may be warm.’ 3 So they searched for a beautiful girl throughout all the territory of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
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