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1 Kings 1:2-5 New Living Translation (NLT)

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.

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