OLD TESTAMENT

1 Kings 1:3

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So they sought for a beautiful young lady throughout all the borders of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.

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Verse 3. Sunamitess. Sunam was not far from Thabor, in the tribe of Issachar. Calmet.—This history leads us to explain the ambition and death of Adonias. Bible.

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