Discovery Box1 Kings 1:3-4 
Context1:3 So they looked through all Israel 1 for a beautiful young woman and found Abishag, a Shunammite, and brought her to the king. 1:4 The young woman was very beautiful; she became the king’s nurse and served him, but the king did not have sexual relations with her. 2
1 Kings 1:31
Context1:31 Bathsheba bowed down to the king with her face to the floor 3 and said, “May my master, King David, live forever!”
1 Kings 9:24
Context9:24 Solomon built the terrace as soon as Pharaoh’s daughter moved up from the city of David 4 to the palace Solomon built for her. 5
1 Kings 17:20
Context17:20 Then he called out to the Lord, “O Lord, my God, are you also bringing disaster on this widow I am staying with by killing her son?”
1 tn Heb “through all the territory of Israel.”
2 tn Heb “did not know her.”
3 tn Heb “bowed low, face [to] the ground, and bowed down to the king.”
4 sn The phrase city of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
5 tn Heb “As soon as Pharaoh’s daughter went up from the city of David to her house which he built for her, then he built the terrace.”
