Bathsheba enters the chamber

Solomon Becomes King · 1 Kings 1

Story guide: Bathsheba bows low before the aged King David as Abishag the Shunammite attends him; the chamber's furnishings and the figures' faces are not described in the passage.

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15So Bathsheba went in to the king in the chamber. Now the king was very old, and Abishag the Shunammite was attending the king.

16Bathsheba bowed down and prostrated herself before the king, and the king said, “What do you want?”

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