1 Kings 1:3

Geneva Bible (1560)

So they sought for a faire young maide throughout all the coastes of Israel, and founde one Abishag a Shunamite, and brought her to the King.

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  • Josh 19:18 : 18 And their coast was Izreelah, and Chesulloth, and Shunem,
  • 1 Sam 28:4 : 4 Then the Philistims assembled themselues, and came, and pitched in Shunem: and Saul assembled all Israel, and they pitched in Gilboa.
  • 1 Kgs 2:17-25 : 17 And he sayd, Speake, I pray thee, vnto Salomon ye King, (for he will not say thee nay) that he giue me Abishag the Shunammite to wife. 18 And Bath-sheba sayd, Well, I will speake for thee vnto the King. 19 Bath-sheba therefore went vnto King Salomon, to speake vnto him for Adonijah: and the King rose to meete her, and bowed himselfe vnto her, and sate downe on his throne: and he caused a seate to be set for the Kings mother, and she sate at his right hand. 20 Then she sayd, I desire a small request of thee, say me not nay. Then the King sayde vnto her, Aske on, my mother: for I will not say thee nay. 21 She sayd then, Let Abishag the Shunammite be giuen to Adonijah thy brother to wife. 22 But King Salomon answered and sayd vnto his mother, And why doest thou aske Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? aske for him the kingdome also: for he is mine elder brother, and hath for him both Abiathar the Priest, and Ioab the sonne of Zeruiah. 23 Then King Salomon sware by the Lorde, saying, God doe so to me and more also, if Adoniiah hath not spoken this worde against his owne life. 24 Now therefore as ye Lord liueth, who hath established me, & set me on the throne of Dauid my father, who also hath made me an house, as he promised, Adoniiah shall surely die this day. 25 And King Salomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada, and hee smote him that he dyed.
  • 2 Kgs 4:8 : 8 And on a time Elisha came to Shunem, and there a woman of great estimation constrained him to eate bread: and as he passed by, he turned in thither to eate bread.
  • 2 Kgs 4:25 : 25 So she went, and came vnto the man of God to mount Carmel; when the man of God sawe her ouer against him, he sayd to Gehazi his seruant, Beholde, the Shunammite.
  • Esth 2:2 : 2 And the Kings seruants that ministred vnto him, sayd, Let them seeke for the King beautifull yong virgins,
  • Esth 2:4 : 4 And the mayde that shall please the King, let her reigne in the steade of Vashti; this pleased the King, and he did so.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Kgs 1:1-2
    2 verses
    90%

    1Now when King Dauid was olde, and striken in yeeres, they couered him with clothes, but no heate came vnto him.

    2Wherefore his seruants saide vnto him, Let there be sought for my lord ye King a yong virgin, and let her stand before the King, and cherish him: and let her lie in thy bosome, that my lord the King may get heate.

  • 1 Kgs 1:4-5
    2 verses
    88%

    4And the maid was exceeding faire, and cherished the King, and ministred to him, but the King knew her not.

    5Then Adoniiah the sonne of Haggith exalted himselfe, saying, I will be King; he gate him charets and horsemen, and fiftie men to run before him.

  • 1 Kgs 1:13-16
    4 verses
    81%

    13Go, and get thee in vnto King Dauid, and say vnto him, Didest not thou, my lorde, O King, sweare vnto thine handmaide, saying, Assuredly Salomo thy sonne shall reigne after me, & he shal sit vpon my throne? why is then Adoniiah King?

    14Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the King, I also will come in after thee, and confirme thy wordes.

    15So Bath-sheba went in vnto the King into the chamber, and the King was verie olde, and Abishag the Shunammite ministred vnto ye King.

    16And Bath-sheba bowed and made obeisance vnto the King; the King saide, What is thy matter?

  • 1 Kgs 2:16-18
    3 verses
    77%

    16Nowe therefore I aske thee one request, refuse me not; she said vnto him, Say on.

    17And he sayd, Speake, I pray thee, vnto Salomon ye King, (for he will not say thee nay) that he giue me Abishag the Shunammite to wife.

    18And Bath-sheba sayd, Well, I will speake for thee vnto the King.

  • 1 Kgs 2:21-22
    2 verses
    77%

    21She sayd then, Let Abishag the Shunammite be giuen to Adonijah thy brother to wife.

    22But King Salomon answered and sayd vnto his mother, And why doest thou aske Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? aske for him the kingdome also: for he is mine elder brother, and hath for him both Abiathar the Priest, and Ioab the sonne of Zeruiah.

  • Esth 2:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2And the Kings seruants that ministred vnto him, sayd, Let them seeke for the King beautifull yong virgins,

    3And let the King appoynt officers through all the prouinces of his kingdome, and let them gather all the beautiful yong virgins vnto the palace of Shushan, into the house of the women, vnder the hand of Hege the Kings eunuche, keeper of the women, to giue them their things for purification.

  • 1 Sam 25:40
    70%

    40And whe the seruants of Dauid were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spake vnto her, saying, Dauid sent vs to thee, to take thee to his wife.

  • 2 Sam 11:2-3
    2 verses
    70%

    2And when it was euening tide, Dauid arose out of his bed, and walked vpon the roofe of the Kings palace: and from the roofe he sawe a woman washing her selfe: and the woman was very beautifull to looke vpon.

    3And Dauid sent and inquired what woman it was: and one sayde, Is not this Bath-sheba the daughter of Eliam, wife to Vriah the Hittite?

  • Esth 1:11
    70%

    11To bring Queene Vashti before the King with the crowne royall, that he might shewe the people and the princes her beautie: for shee was fayre to looke vpon.

  • 1 Kgs 1:27-28
    2 verses
    69%

    27Is this thing done by my lord the King, & thou hast not shewed it vnto thy seruant, who should sitte on the throne of my lorde the King after him?

    28Then King Dauid answered, and saide, Call me Bath-sheba; shee came into ye Kings presence, and stoode before the King.

  • 2 Sam 3:17
    69%

    17And Abner had communication with the Elders of Israel, saying, Ye sought for Dauid in times past, that he might be your King.

  • 2 Sam 3:6-7
    2 verses
    68%

    6Nowe while there was warre betweene the house of Saul and the house of Dauid, Abner made all his power for the house of Saul.

    7And Saul had a concubine named Rizpah, the daughter of Aiiah; Ish-bosheth sayde to Abner, Wherefore hast thou gone in to my fathers concubine?

  • Esth 2:9
    68%

    9And the mayde pleased him, & she founde fauour in his sight: therefore he caused her things for purification to be giuen her speedily, and her state, and seuen comely maides to be giuer her out of the Kings house, and he gaue change to her and to her maydes of the best in the house of the women.

  • 1 Kgs 1:19-20
    2 verses
    67%

    19And he hath offred many oxen, and fatte cattel, and sheepe, and hath called all the sonnes of the King, and Abiathar the Priest, and Ioab the captaine of the hoste: but Salomon thy seruant hath he not bidden.

    20And thou, my lorde, O King, knowest that the eyes of all Israel are on thee, that thou shouldest tell them, who shoulde sit on the throne of my lord the King after him.

  • 2 Sam 14:27
    67%

    27And Absalom had three sonnes, and one daughter named Tamar, which was a fayre woman to looke vpon.

  • 1 Sam 16:12
    67%

    12And he sent, and brought him in: and he was ruddie, & of a good countenance, and comely visage; the Lorde saide, Arise, and anoynt him: for this is he.

  • 1 Kgs 1:32
    67%

    32And King Dauid saide, Call mee Zadok the Priest, and Nathan the Prophet, and Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada; they came before the King.

  • 2 Kgs 4:12
    67%

    12And sayd to Gehazi his seruant, Call this Shunammite: and when hee called her, she stood before him.

  • Judg 21:12
    67%

    12And they found among the inhabitants of Iabesh Gilead foure hundreth maides, virgins that had knowne no man by lying with any male: and they brought them vnto the hoste to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

  • 1 Sam 25:42
    67%

    42And Abigail hasted, & arose, and rode vpon an asse, and her fiue maides folowed her, and she went after the messengers of Dauid, and was his wife.

  • Gen 24:16
    67%

    16(And the maide was very faire to looke vpon, a virgine and vnknowen of man) and she went downe to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came vp.

  • 2 Sam 14:25
    67%

    25Nowe in all Israel there was none to be so much praysed for beautie as Absalom: from the sole of his foote euen to the toppe of his head there was no blemish in him.

  • Song 3:7
    67%

    7Beholde his bed, which is Salomons: threescore strong men are round about it, of the valiant men of Israel.

  • 1 Chr 2:29
    67%

    29And the name of the wife of Abishur was called Abiahil, and shee bare him Ahban and Molid.

  • Esth 2:13-15
    3 verses
    67%

    13And thus went the maides vnto the King) whatsoeuer she required, was giuen her, to go with her out of the womens house vnto ye kings house.

    14In the euening she went, & on the morow she returned into the second house of the women vnder the hand of Shaashgaz the Kings eunuche, which kept the concubines: shee came in to the King no more, except shee pleased the King, and that she were called by name.

    15Now when the course of Ester the daughter of Abihail the vncle of Mordecai (which had taken her as his owne daughter) came, that shee should go in to the King, she desired nothing, but what Hege the Kings eunuche the keeper of the women sayde: and Ester founde fauour in the sight of all them that looked vpon her.

  • 2 Sam 3:10
    67%

    10To remoue the kingdome from the house of Saul, that the throne of Dauid may be stablished ouer Israel, and ouer Iudah, euen from Dan to Beer-sheba.

  • 2 Sam 3:13
    66%

    13Who saide, Well, I will make a couenant with thee: but one thing I require of thee, that is, that thou see not my face except thou bring Michal Sauls daughter when thou commest to see me.

  • 2 Chr 9:12
    66%

    12And King Salomon gaue to the Queene of Sheba euery pleasant thing that she asked, besides for that which she had brought vnto the King: so she returned and went to her owne countrey, both she, and her seruants.

  • Song 3:11
    66%

    11Come forth, ye daughters of Zion, and behold the King Salomon with the crowne, wherewith his mother crowned him in ye day of his mariage, and in the day of the gladnes of his heart.

  • 2 Kgs 4:25
    66%

    25So she went, and came vnto the man of God to mount Carmel; when the man of God sawe her ouer against him, he sayd to Gehazi his seruant, Beholde, the Shunammite.