1 Kings 1:1-4

"Now King David was old, advanced in days; and they would cover him with garments, but he would not feel warm. So his servants said to him: "Let them look for a girl, a virgin, for my lord the king, and she will have to attend upon the king, that she may become his nurse; and she must lie in your bosom, and my lord the king will certainly feel warm." And they went looking for a beautiful girl throughout all the territory of Israel, and finally found Abishag the Shunammite and then brought her into the king. And the girl was beautiful in the extreme; and she came to be the king's nurse and kept waiting upon him, and the king himself had no intercourse with her."



I'm curious - how come Bathsheba wasn't the "nursemaid" here? Did Bathsheba think that the role of "nursemaid" was going to be too "high maintenance?" Or did she have her hands full with running the royal household?

I wasn't feeling very well just recently - went off to the chemist to go buy some meds. Staggered up to the counter with a head that felt like it was going to explode. When I got home, I just curled up with a hot water bottle and the cat.

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