- Prayer and Worship - Beliefs and Teachings - Issues and Action
- Catholic Giving - About USCCB David’s Old Age. 1* When King
David was old and advanced in years, though they covered him
with blankets he could not get warm. 2His servants therefore
said to him, “Let a young virgin be sought to attend my lord the
king,* and to nurse him. If she sleeps with you, my lord the
king will be warm.” 3So they sought for a beautiful girl
throughout the territory of Israel, and found Abishag the
Shunamite. So they brought her to the king. 4The girl was very
beautiful indeed, and she nursed the king and took care of him.
But the king did not have relations with her. Adonijah’s
Ambition. 5Adonijah, son of Haggith, boasted, “I shall be king!”
and he provided himself with chariots, horses, and a retinue of
fifty to go before him.a 6Yet his father would never antagonize
him by asking, “Why are you doing this?” Adonijah was also very
handsome, and next in age to Absalom by the same mother. 7He
consulted with Joab, son of Zeru