1 Kings 1:3

Contextual Overview

¹ Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he got no heat. ¹ King David was now very old, and no matter how many blankets covered him, he could not keep warm. ¹ Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat. ¹ At this time King David was very old, and although his servants covered him with blankets, he could not keep warm. ¹ King David was very old; even when they covered him with blankets, he could not get warm. ¹ Now king David was old [and] advanced in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he got no heat. ¹ Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he got no heat. ¹Now King David was old, advanced in years; they covered him with clothes, but he could not get warm. ¹ Now King David was old and advanced in years. And although they covered him with clothes, he could not get warm. ¹ And kyng Dauid wax eld, and hadde ful many daies of age; and whanne he was hilid with clothis, he was not maad hoot.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

So: Esther 2:2, Esther 2:4

Abishag: 1 Kings 2:17-25

Shunammite: Joshua 19:18, 1 Samuel 28:4, 2 Kings 4:8, 2 Kings 4:25

Cross-References

Job 36:30
See how he spreads the lightning around him and how it lights up the depths of the sea.

Job 36:30
Behold, he spreadeth his light around him; and he covereth the bottom of the sea.

Job 36:30
Look, he spreads his light around him; And he covers the bottom of the sea.

Job 36:30
Watch how God scatters his lightning around him, lighting up the deepest parts of the sea.

Job 36:30
See how he scattered his lightning about him; he has covered the depths of the sea.

Job 36:30
Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.

Job 36:30
Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea.

Job 36:30
"Behold, He spreads His lightning around Him [against the dark clouds], And He covers the depths of the sea.

Job 36:30
Behold, he scatters his lightning about him and covers the roots of the sea.

Job 36:30
and leite with his liyt fro aboue, he schal hile, yhe,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel,.... Not only a damsel, but a beautiful one, that she might be the more acceptable to the king; who otherwise, if deformed and ugly, would not have endured her in his sight, or received at her hands, and much less suffered her to lie in his bosom:

and found Abishag a Shunammite; a native of the city Shunem, a city in the tribe of Issachar, Joshua 19:18;

and brought her to the king; for his approbation of her, and to make her his concubine wife, as he did.