OLD TESTAMENT

1 Kings 1:2

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

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Verse 2. Servants. Physicians. Josep. vii. 14.—People of the faculty still adopt the same sentiments; and when fire and clothes will not procure heat, they advise the application of living creatures. Bartholin ix. Galen vii. Vales. Philos. chapter 19.

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