4The girl was very beautiful; she took care of the king and waited on him, but the king had no intimate relations with her.


In Context

1 When King David was old and well advanced in years, he could not keep warm even when they put covers over him.

2 So his servants said to him, "Let us look for a young virgin to attend the king and take care of him. She can lie beside him so that our lord the king may keep warm."

3 Then they searched throughout Israel for a beautiful girl and found Abishag, a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.

4 The girl was very beautiful; she took care of the king and waited on him, but the king had no intimate relations with her.

5 Now Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith, put himself forward and said, "I will be king." So he got chariots and horses ready, with fifty men to run ahead of him.

6 (His father had never interfered with him by asking, "Why do you behave as you do?" He was also very handsome and was born next after Absalom.)

1st Kings 1:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:4And the damsel [was] very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered to him: but the king knew her not.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:4And the damsel was exceeding beautiful, and she slept with the king: and served him, but the king did not know her.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:4And the damsel was very fair; and she cherished the king, and ministered to him; but the king knew her not.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:4And the damsel was very fair; and cherished the king, and ministered to him; but the king knew her not.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:4And the damsel was very fair; and she cherished the king, and ministered to him; but the king knew her not.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:4And the damsel was very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered to him: but the king knew her not.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:4The young lady was very beautiful; and she cherished the king, and ministered to him; but the king didn't know her intimately.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:4and the young woman is very very fair, and she is to the king a companion, and serveth him, and the king hath not known her.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:4And the damsel was very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered to him: but the king knew her not.