Avishag the Shunammite
by Esther Newman-Cohen
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Title
Avishag the Shunammite
Artist
Esther Newman-Cohen
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
Of the scant female biblical characters, few are as intriguing as Avishag the Shunammite: a young girl brought from obscurity to the court of the aged King David, to warm the king's bed and stir his aged blood. Though 'exceedingly fair', she does not become the King's concubine. Reticent and loyal to David, she becomes an unwitting magnet, drawing the attention of the kingdom's most powerful men. As the sons of David - Adonijah the Judean and Solomon the Wise stake their claims, it is Avishag who will play the decisive role in the bloody rivalry for the succession. After David's death, Adonijah asks Bathsheba to request Solomon to give him Abishag as a wife (1st Kings 2:13-18). She then delivers the request to Solomon who replies that such a request, if granted, would seem an implicit acknowledgement of Adonijah's claim to the throne since the latter was Solomon's older brother. 1st Kings 2:19-22
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