1 Kings 1:4
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New International Version (©1984)
The girl was very beautiful; she took care of the king and waited on him, but the king had no intimate relations with her.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The girl was very beautiful, and she looked after the king and took care of him. But the king had no sexual relations with her.

English Standard Version (©2001)
The young woman was very beautiful, and she was of service to the king and attended to him, but the king knew her not.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
The girl was very beautiful; and she became the king's nurse and served him, but the king did not cohabit with her.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the damsel was very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered to him: but the king knew her not.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The woman was very beautiful. She became the king's servant and took care of him, but the king did not make love to her.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the young woman was very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered to him: but the king knew her not.

American King James Version
And the damsel was very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered to him: but the king knew her not.

American Standard Version
And the damsel was very fair; and she cherished the king, and ministered to him; but the king knew her not.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the damsel was exceeding beautiful, and she slept with the king: and served him, but the king did not know her.

Darby Bible Translation
And the damsel was very fair; and cherished the king, and ministered to him; but the king knew her not.

English Revised Version
And the damsel was very fair; and she cherished the king, and ministered to him; but the king knew her not.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the damsel was very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered to him: but the king knew her not.

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

Young's Literal Translation
and 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.

Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

The king knew her not - The maxim of Bacon in his enigmatical cure is, "Take all you can from the medicine, but give nothing to it; if you give any thing, it increases the disease and hastens death." I have seen this abundantly verified; but it is a subject on which it would be improper to dilate except in a medical work. An extract from Friar Bacon's Cure of Old Age may be found at the end of the chapter.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the damsel was very fair,.... And so very agreeable to the king to be in his presence, and wait upon him, and take things of her hand, as well as lie with him:

and cherished the king; enlivened his spirits by her amiable countenance, her graceful behaviour, and tender care of him, and especially by bedding with him:

and ministered to him; serving him with her own hands whatever he took for his sustenance:

but the king knew her not; as a man knows his wife; which shows that she was his wife, and that it would not have been criminal in him had he known her; but this is observed, not to point at the chastity of David, but his feebleness, and loss of desire after women, and that the damsel remained a virgin; and that was the ground of Adonijah's request, and his hope of succeeding.

Geneva Study Bible

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

Wesley's Notes

1:4 Knew her not - Which is mentioned to note the continuance and progress of the king's malady.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

1:1-4 We have David sinking under infirmities. He was chastised for his recent sins, and felt the effects of his former toils and hardships.


1 Kings 1:3 Then they searched throughout Israel for a beautiful girl and found Abishag, a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
1 Kings 1:5 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.
1 Kings 2:17 So he continued, "Please ask King Solomon--he will not refuse you--to give me Abishag the Shunammite as my wife."
1 Kings 2:21 So she said, "Let Abishag the Shunammite be given in marriage to your brother Adonijah."

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

knew her not Mt 1:25

1 Kings Chapter 1 Verse 4

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