1 Kings 1:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Now she was very beautiful; and she took care of the king, waiting on him at all times; but the king had no connection with her.

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  • Matt 1:25 : 25 And he had no connection with her till she had given birth to a son; and he gave him the name Jesus.

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  • 1 Kgs 1:1-3
    3 verses
    88%

    1 Now King David was old and far on in years; and though they put covers over him, his body was cold.

    2 So his servants said to him, Let search be made for a young virgin for my lord the king, to take care of him and be waiting on him; and you may take her in your arms, and so my lord the king will be warm.

    3 So after searching through all the land of Israel for a fair young girl, they saw Abishag the Shunammite, and took her to the king.

  • 1 Kgs 1:13-20
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    80%

    13 Come now, go to King David and say to him, Did you not, O my lord, take an oath to me, your servant, saying, Truly Solomon your son will be king after me, seated on the seat of my kingdom? why then is Adonijah acting as king?

    14 And while you are still talking there with the king, see, I will come in after you and say that your story is true.

    15 Then Bath-sheba went into the king's room; now the king was very old, and Abishag the Shunammite was waiting on him.

    16 And Bath-sheba went down on her face on the earth before the king giving him honour. And he said, What is your desire?

    17 And she said to him, My lord, you took an oath by the Lord your God and gave your word to your servant, saying, Truly, Solomon your son will be king after me, seated on the seat of my kingdom.

    18 And now, see, Adonijah has made himself king without my lord's knowledge;

    19 And has put to death oxen and fat beasts and sheep in great numbers, and has sent for all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab, the captain of the army; but he has not sent for Solomon your servant.

    20 And now, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, waiting for you to say who is to take the place of my lord the king after him.

  • 1 Kgs 2:21-22
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    21 And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother for a wife.

    22 Then King Solomon made answer and said to his mother, Why are you requesting me to give Abishag the Shunammite to Adonijah? Take the kingdom for him in addition, for he is my older brother, and Abiathar the priest and Joab, the son of Zeruiah, are on his side.

  • 1 Kgs 1:5-7
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    5 Then Adonijah, the son of Haggith, lifting himself up in pride, said, I will become king; and he made ready his carriages of war and his horsemen, with fifty runners to go before him.

    6 Now all his life his father had never gone against him or said to him, Why have you done so? and he was a very good-looking man, and younger than Absalom.

    7 And he had talk with Joab, the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest; and they were on his side and gave him their support.

  • 1 Kgs 2:16-19
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    16 Now I have one request to make to you, and do not say, No, to me. And she said to him, Say on.

    17 Then he said, Will you go to Solomon the king (for he will not say, No, to you) and put before him my request that he will give me Abishag the Shunammite for a wife?

    18 And Bath-sheba said, Good! I will make your request to the king.

    19 So Bath-sheba went to King Solomon to have talk with him on Adonijah's account. And the king got up to come to her, and went down low to the earth before her; then he took his place on the king's seat and had a seat made ready for the king's mother and she took her place at his right hand.

  • Gen 24:16
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    16 She was a very beautiful girl, a virgin, who had never been touched by a man: and she went down to the spring to get water in her vessel.

  • Esth 2:2-4
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    2 Then the servants who were waiting on the king said to him, Let search be made for some fair young virgins for the king:

    3 Let the king give authority to certain men in all the divisions of his kingdom, to get together all the fair young virgins and send them to Shushan, the king's town, to the women's house, under the care of Hegai, the king's servant, the keeper of the women: and let the things needed for making them clean be given to them;

    4 And let the girl who is pleasing to the king be queen in place of Vashti. And the king was pleased with this suggestion; and he did so.

  • Esth 1:11
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    11 That Vashti the queen was to come before him, crowned with her crown, and let the people and the captains see her: for she was very beautiful.

  • 1 Kgs 1:11
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    11 Then Nathan said to Bath-sheba, the mother of Solomon, Has it not come to your ears that Adonijah, the son of Haggith, has made himself king without the knowledge of David our lord?

  • 1 Kgs 1:26-28
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    26 But me, your servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon, he has not sent for.

    27 Has this thing been done by my lord the king, without giving word to your servants who was to be placed on my lord the king's seat after him?

    28 Then King David in answer said, Send for Bath-sheba to come to me. And she came in and took her place before the king.

  • Esth 2:9
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    9 And he was pleased with the girl and was kind to her; and he quickly gave her what was needed for making her clean, and the things which were hers by right, and seven servant-girls who were to be hers from the king's house: and he had her and her servant-girls moved to the best place in the women's part of the house.

  • 2 Sam 14:27
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    27 And Absalom was the father of three sons and of one daughter named Tamar, who was very beautiful.

  • 2 Sam 11:2-3
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    2 Now one evening, David got up from his bed, and while he was walking on the roof of the king's house, he saw from there a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.

    3 And David sent to get knowledge who the woman was. And one said, Is this not Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam and wife of Uriah the Hittite?

  • Esth 2:13-15
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    13 And in this way the girl went in to the king; whatever she had a desire for was given to her to take with her from the women's house into the house of the king.

    14 In the evening she went, and on the day after she came back to the second house of the women, into the keeping of Shaashgaz, one of the king's unsexed servants who had the care of the king's wives: only if the king had delight in her and sent for her by name did she go in to him again.

    15 Now when the time came for Esther, the daughter of Abihail, his father's brother, whom Mordecai had taken as his daughter, to go in to the king, she made request for nothing but what Hegai, the king's servant and keeper of the women, had given her. And Esther was looked on kindly by all who saw her.

  • 2 Sam 14:16-18
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    16 For the king will give ear, and take his servant out of the power of the man whose purpose is the destruction of me and my son together from the heritage of God.

    17 Then your servant said, May the word of my lord the king give me peace! for my lord the king is as the angel of God in his hearing of good and bad: and may the Lord your God be with you!

    18 Then the king said to the woman, Now give me an answer to the question I am going to put to you; keep nothing back. And the woman said, Let my lord the king say on.

  • 1 Kgs 10:3-4
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    3 And Solomon gave her answers to all her questions; there was no secret which the king did not make clear to her.

    4 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he had made,

  • 2 Sam 13:1
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    1 Now after this, it came about that Absalom, David's son, had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and David's son Amnon was in love with her.

  • 1 Chr 3:2
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    2 The third Absalom, the son of Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur; the fourth Adonijah, the son of Haggith;

  • Ps 45:11
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    11 So will the king have a great desire for you, seeing how beautiful you are; because he is your lord, give him honour.

  • 2 Kgs 4:25
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    25 So she went, and came to Mount Carmel, to the man of God. And when the man of God saw her coming in his direction, he said to Gehazi, his servant, See, there is the Shunammite;

  • 1 Sam 25:40
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    40 And when David's servants came to Carmel, to Abigail, they said to her, David has sent us to you to take you to him as his wife.

  • 2 Chr 9:4
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    4 And the food at his table, and all his servants seated there, and those who were waiting on him in their places, and their robes, and his wine-servants and their robes, and the burned offerings which he made in the house of the Lord, there was no more spirit in her.