1 Kings 1:4

World English Bible (2000)

The young lady was very beautiful; and she cherished the king, and ministered to him; but the king didn't know her intimately.

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  • Matt 1:25 : 25 and didn't know her sexually until she had brought forth her firstborn son. He named him Jesus.

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  • 1 Kgs 1:1-3
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    1Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he couldn't keep warm.

    2Therefore his servants said to him, "Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and cherish him; and let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may keep warm."

    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.

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    13Go in to king David, and tell him, 'Didn't you, my lord, king, swear to your handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne? Why then does Adonijah reign?'

    14Behold, while you yet talk there with the king, I also will come in after you, and confirm your words."

    15Bathsheba went in to the king into the room. The king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite was ministering to the king.

    16Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance to the king. The king said, "What would you like?"

    17She said to him, "My lord, you swore by Yahweh your God to your handmaid, 'Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne.'

    18Now, behold, Adonijah reigns; and you, my lord the king, don't know it.

    19He has slain cattle and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and has called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the army; but he hasn't called Solomon your servant.

    20You, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, that you should tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.

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    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."

  • 1 Kgs 1:5-7
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    5Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, "I will be king." Then he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.

    6His father had not displeased him at any time in saying, "Why have you done so?" and he was also a very handsome man; and he was born after Absalom.

    7He conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest: and they following Adonijah helped him.

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    16Now I ask one petition of you. Don't deny me." She said to him, "Say on."

    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, "Alright. 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.

  • 16The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin, neither had any man known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up.

  • Esth 2:2-4
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    2Then the king's servants who served him said, "Let beautiful young virgins be sought for the king.

    3Let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the beautiful young virgins to the citadel of Susa, to the women's house, to the custody of Hegai the king's eunuch, keeper of the women. Let cosmetics be given them;

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

  • 11to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the royal crown, to show the people and the princes her beauty; for she was beautiful.

  • 11Then Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, "Haven't you heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith reigns, and David our lord doesn't know it?

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    26But he hasn't called me, even me your servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon.

    27Is this thing done by my lord the king, and you haven't shown to your servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?"

    28Then king David answered, "Call to me Bathsheba." She came into the king's presence, and stood before the king.

  • 9The maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness from him. He quickly gave her cosmetics and her portions of food, and the seven choice maidens who were to be given her out of the king's house. He moved her and her maidens to the best place in the women's house.

  • 27To Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a beautiful face.

  • 2 Sam 11:2-3
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    2It happened at evening, that David arose from off his bed, and walked on the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look on.

    3David sent and inquired after the woman. One said, "Isn't this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?"

  • Esth 2:13-15
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    13The young woman then came to the king like this: whatever she desired was given her to go with her out of the women's house to the king's house.

    14In the evening she went, and on the next day she returned into the second women's house, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's eunuch, who kept the concubines. She came in to the king no more, unless the king delighted in her, and she was called by name.

    15Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's eunuch, the keeper of the women, advised. Esther obtained favor in the sight of all those who looked at her.

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    16For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

    17Then your handmaid said, 'Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.'"

    18Then the king answered the woman, "Please don't hide anything from me that I ask you." The woman said, "Let my lord the king now speak."

  • 1 Kgs 10:3-4
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    3Solomon told her all her questions: there was not anything hidden from the king which he didn't tell her.

    4When the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,

  • 1It happened after this, that Absalom the son of David had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.

  • 2the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith;

  • 11So the king will desire your beauty, honor him, for he is your lord.

  • 25So she went, and came to the man of God to Mount Carmel. It happened, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, "Behold, there is the Shunammite.

  • 40When the servants of David had come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, "David has sent us to you, to take you to him as wife."

  • 4and the food of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their clothing, his cup bearers also, and their clothing, and his ascent by which he went up to the house of Yahweh; there was no more spirit in her.