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Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be ye valiant; for Saul your lord is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them.

Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul’s host, had taken [a]Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim; and he made him king over Gilead, and over the [b]Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 2:8 In 1 Chr. 8:33; 9:39, Eshbaal.
  2. 2 Samuel 2:9 The Vulgate and Syriac have, Geshurites.