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Shunammites

Shunammites

A person first named at 1 Kings 1:3.

Where in scripture

1 Kings2 Kings

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.

1 Kings 1:3

Bathsheba went in to the king in his room. The king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite was serving the king.

1 Kings 1:15

He said, “Please speak to Solomon the king (for he will not tell you ‘no’), that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife.”

1 Kings 2:17

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

1 Kings 2:21

King Solomon answered his mother, “Why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also; for he is my elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.”

1 Kings 2:22

He said to Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite.” When he had called her, she stood before him.

2 Kings 4:12

So she went, and came to the man of God to Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her afar off, he said to Gehazi his servant, “Behold, there is the Shunammite.

2 Kings 4:25

He called Gehazi, and said, “Call this Shunammite!” So he called her. When she had come in to him, he said, “Take up your son.”

2 Kings 4:36

Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, a public-domain translation.

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