1 Kings 1:2
Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat. Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat.
The counsel to find a young attendant for the king belongs to the closing period of David's life, when he was about seventy years old. By that time his strength was failing under the weight of advanced age. The hardships he had endured through his lifetime had hastened that decline. The wars he had fought and the cares that crowded his later years had further weakened him.