1 Kings 1:3-4

Christian Standard Bible

³They searched for a beautiful girl throughout the territory of Israel; they found Abishag^(A) the Shunammite^[a]^(B) and brought her to the king. ⁴The girl was of unsurpassed beauty,^(C) and she became the king’s caregiver. She attended to him, but he was not intimate with^[b] her.

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Footnotes

1:3 Shunem was a town in the hill country of Issachar at the foot of Mt. Moreh; Jos 19:17–18.
1:4 Lit he did not know

1 Kings 1:15

Christian Standard Bible

¹⁵So Bathsheba went to the king in his bedroom. Since the king was very old, Abishag the Shunammite was attending to him.^(A)

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