1. King David was now very old, and no matter how many blankets covered him, he could not keep warm.
2. So his advisers told him, “Let us find a young virgin to wait on you and look after you, my lord. She will lie in your arms and keep you warm.”
3. So they searched throughout the land of Israel for a beautiful girl, and they found Abishag from Shunem and brought her to the king.
4. The girl was very beautiful, and she looked after the king and took care of him. But the king had no sexual relations with her.
5. About that time David’s son Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith, began boasting, “I will make myself king.” So he provided himself with chariots and charioteers and recruited fifty men to run in front of him.
6. Now his father, King David, had never disciplined him at any time, even by asking, “Why are you doing that?” Adonijah had been born next after Absalom, and he was very handsome.