Biblical Profile: Abishag: Bedwarmer or Bureaucrat?

Many of the bible’s stories about King David place a woman at key stages of his career. He enters the royal family by marrying Michal, Saul’s daughter (1 Samuel 18:27). He becomes king of Judah in the city of Hebron, where he reigned for seven years, after marrying Abigail, the rich widow of the landowner Nabal (1 Samuel 25). In Jerusalem, at the height of his power, David almost loses everything by sleeping with Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah the Hittite, one of his elite officers whom David had assassinated by proxy (2 Samuel 11–12). Finally, at the end of […]