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So they searched throughout Israel for a young woman (Hebr. naarah) and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king. [Avishag was from the city of Shunem in the valley of Jezreel near Mount Gilboa; the woman in the Song of Songs is also from Shunem, see Song of Songs 6:13.]
So Bathsheba went to the king into the chamber [where David was lying]. Now the king was very old, and Avishag, the Shunammite, was attending the king.
And he said, "Speak, I pray thee, to Solomon the king—for he will not turn away his face from thee—that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to be my wife." []
And she said, "Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as his wife."
And King Solomon answered his mother and said, "Why do you ask for Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for the kingdom for him also, for he is my older brother, and for him and for Abiathar the priest and for Joab the son of Zeruiah."
