1-Kings - 2:21



21 She said, "Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife."

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And she said: Let Abisag the Sunamitess be given to Adonias thy brother to wife.
And she said, Let Abishag the Shunamite be given to Adonijah thy brother for a wife.

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And she said, let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife. For so Adonijah was by his father's side; and Bathsheba makes use of the relation, the more to move upon him to grant the request.

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