1 Kings 1:3

WEB

³So they sought for a beautiful young lady throughout all the borders of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.

KJV

³So they sought^[+] for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.

BSB

³Then they searched throughout Israel for a beautiful girl, and they found Abishag the Shunammite and brought her to the king.

FBV

³So they searched the whole country of Israel for a beautiful young woman and found Abishag from the town of Shunem and took her to the king.

Extra References

Joshua 19:18

¹⁸Their border was to Jezreel, Chesulloth, Shunem,

Esther 2:4

⁴and let the maiden who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.” The thing pleased the king, and he did so.

Esther 2:2

²Then the king’s servants who served him said, “Let beautiful young virgins be sought for the king.

2 Kings 4:8

⁸One day Elisha went to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.

1 Samuel 28:4

⁴The Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and encamped in Shunem; and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they encamped in Gilboa.

2 Kings 4:25

²⁵So she went, and came to the man of God to Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her afar off, he said to Gehazi his servant, “Behold, there is the Shunammite.

1 Kings 2:17-25

¹⁷He said, “Please speak to Solomon the king (for he will not tell you ‘no’), that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife.”

¹⁸Bathsheba said, “All right. I will speak for you to the king.”

¹⁹Bathsheba therefore went to King Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. The king rose up to meet her and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his throne and caused a throne to be set for the king’s mother; and she sat on his right hand. ²⁰Then she said, “I ask one small petition of you; don’t deny me.” The king said to her, “Ask on, my mother, for I will not deny you.”

²¹She said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife.”

²²King Solomon answered his mother, “Why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also, for he is my elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.” ²³Then King Solomon swore by the LORD, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life. ²⁴Now therefore as the LORD lives, who has established me and set me on my father David’s throne, and who has made me a house as he promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death today.”

²⁵King Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell on him, so that he died.