David’s Last Days

1 Now King David was old and getting on in years.^(A) Although they covered him with bedclothes, he could not get warm.^{(B) 2} So his servants said to him: “Let us^[a] search for a young virgin for my lord the king.^(C) She is to attend the king and be his caregiver. She is to lie by your side so that my lord the king will get warm.” ³ They searched for a beautiful girl throughout the territory of Israel; they found Abishag^(D) the Shunammite^[b](E) and brought her to the king. ⁴ The girl was of unsurpassed beauty,^(F) and she became the king’s caregiver. She served him, but he was not intimate with^[c] her.