¹⁷ So he continued, “Please ask King Solomon—he will not refuse you—to give me Abishag^(A) the Shunammite as my wife.”

² So his attendants said to him, “Let us look for a young virgin to serve the king and take care of him. She can lie beside him so that our lord the king may keep warm.”

³ Then they searched throughout Israel for a beautiful young woman and found Abishag,^(A) a Shunammite,^(B) and brought her to the king. ⁴ The woman was very beautiful; she took care of the king and waited on him, but the king had no sexual relations with her.

⁸ I gave your master’s house to you,^(A) and your master’s wives into your arms. I gave you all Israel and Judah. And if all this had been too little, I would have given you even more.

⁷ Now Saul had had a concubine^(A) named Rizpah^(B) daughter of Aiah. And Ish-Bosheth said to Abner, “Why did you sleep with my father’s concubine?”