1 Reis 1:3

So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel ,.... Not only a damsel, but a beautiful one, that she might be the more acceptable to the king; who otherwise, if deformed and ugly, would not have endured her in his sight, or received at her hands, and much less suffered her to lie in his bosom:

and found Abishag a Shunammite ; a native of the city Shunem, a city in the tribe of Issachar, Joshua 19:18 ;

and brought her to the king ; for his approbation of her, and to make her his concubine wife, as he did.