1 Kings 1:3

Contextual Overview

¹Now King David was old and advanced in age. Although they covered him with bedclothes, he could not get warm. ¹ Now king David was old and stricken 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 gat no heat. ¹ Now King David was old and advanced in years. And although they covered him with clothes, he could not get warm. 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. 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, advanced in age; and they covered him with garments, but he could not keep warm. ¹ Now when King Dauid was olde, and striken in yeeres, they couered him with clothes, but no heate came vnto him. ¹Now King David was old, advanced in age; and they covered him with clothes, but he could not keep warm.

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 his lightning around himand covers the depths 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 spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.

Job 36:30
Behold, he scatters his lightning about him and covers the roots 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 spreads His lightning around Him [against the dark clouds], And He covers the depths of the sea.

Job 36:30
"Behold, He spreads His lightning about Him, And He covers the depths of the sea.

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

Job 36:30
Beholde, he spreadeth his light vpon it, and couereth the bottome of the sea.

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.