²¹ “Then let your brother Adonijah marry Abishag, the girl from Shunem,” she replied.

³ So they searched throughout the land of Israel for a beautiful girl, and they found Abishag from Shunem and brought her to the king.

²¹ Ahithophel told him, “Go and sleep with your father’s concubines, for he has left them here to look after the palace. Then all Israel will know that you have insulted your father beyond hope of reconciliation, and they will throw their support to you.” ²² So they set up a tent on the palace roof where everyone could see it, and Absalom went in and had sex with his father’s concubines.