King James Version
1 Kings 1:3 in the King James Version says “So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to...” — study this verse from 1 Kings chapter 1 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.”
1 Kings 1:3 · KJV
Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat. stricken: Heb. entered into days
Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat. Let there: Heb. Let them seek a young: Heb. a damsel, a virgin cherish: Heb. be a cherisher unto him
So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
And the damsel was very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered to him: but the king knew her not.
Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. be king: Heb. reign
KJV Study — Public Domain
“So they sought”
H1245to search out (by any method, specifically in worship or prayer); by implication, to strive after
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“throughout all the coasts”
H1366properly, a cord (as twisted), i.e., (by implication) a boundary; by extension the territory inclosed
“of Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
“and found”
H4672properly, to come forth to, i.e., appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e., find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
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