InterlinearVerse GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
InterlinearVerse 1 Ki C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22
1 Ki 1 V1 V5 V7 V9 V11 V13 V15 V17 V19 V21 V23 V25 V27 V29 V31 V33 V35 V37 V39 V41 V43 V45 V47 V49 V51 V53
People tagged in the matching LV passage: Abishag
OET-LV And_they_sought a_young_woman beautiful in_all_of the_territory_of Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) and_they_found DOM ʼAⱱīshag the_Shūnammit and_they_brought DOM_her/it to_king.
OET (OET-RV) So they searched throughout Yisrael (Israel) and found a beautiful young woman called Avishag (a Shunamit) and brought her to the king.
Note 1 topic: writing-participants
וַיְבַקְשׁוּ֙ נַעֲרָ֣ה יָפָ֔ה בְּכֹ֖ל גְּב֣וּל יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַֽיִּמְצְא֗וּ אֶת־אֲבִישַׁג֙ הַשּׁ֣וּנַמִּ֔ית
and,they_sought girl beautiful (Some words not found in UHB: and,they_sought girl beautiful in,all_of border Yisrael and,they_found DOM ʼAⱱīshag the,Shunammite and,they_brought DOM=her/it to,king )
Here and in the next verse, the author is introducing Abishag the Shunammitess as a new participant in the story. Your language may have its own way of introducing new participants that you can use in your translation.
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
גְּב֣וּל יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל
(Some words not found in UHB: and,they_sought girl beautiful in,all_of border Yisrael and,they_found DOM ʼAⱱīshag the,Shunammite and,they_brought DOM=her/it to,king )
Here, the border of Israel represents the entire territory of Israel. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use an equivalent expression or plain language. Alternate translation: [the territory of Israel]
OET-LV And_they_sought a_young_woman beautiful in_all_of the_territory_of Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) and_they_found DOM ʼAⱱīshag the_Shūnammit and_they_brought DOM_her/it to_king.
OET (OET-RV) So they searched throughout Yisrael (Israel) and found a beautiful young woman called Avishag (a Shunamit) and brought her to the king.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.