So some of the king's advisers who were close to him suggested, "Why don't you make a search to find some beautiful young virgins?

Then take the young woman you like best and make her queen in Vashti's place." The king thought this was good advice, so he followed it.

He answered, "Please ask King Solomon---I know he won't refuse you---to let me have Abishag, the young woman from Shunem, as my wife."

So Bathsheba went to the king to speak to him on behalf of Adonijah. The king stood up to greet his mother and bowed to her. Then he sat on his throne and had another one brought in on which she sat at his right.

She answered, "Let your brother Adonijah have Abishag as his wife."

Then Solomon made a solemn promise in the LORD's name, "May God strike me dead if I don't make Adonijah pay with his life for asking this!

So King Solomon gave orders to Benaiah, who went out and killed Adonijah.

Its area included Jezreel, Chesulloth, Shunem,

The Philistine troops assembled and camped near the town of Shunem; Saul gathered the Israelites and camped at Mount Gilboa.

One day Elisha went to Shunem, where a rich woman lived. She invited him to a meal, and from then on every time he went to Shunem he would have his meals at her house.

So she set out and went to Mount Carmel, where Elisha was. Elisha saw her coming while she was still some distance away, and he said to his servant Gehazi, "Look, there comes the woman from Shunem!