3So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
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And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.
And their border was toward Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem,
Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king:
And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.
And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they pitched in Gilboa.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)David, as recorded in the foregoing chapter, had, by the great mercy of God, escaped the sword of the destroying angel. But our deliverances from or through diseases and dangers are but reprieves; if the candle be not blown out, it will burn out of itself. We have David here sinking under the infirmities of old age, and brought by them to the gates of the grave. He that cometh up out of the pit sh…
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