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So now, let your hands be strong and be [a]valiant; for Saul your lord is dead, and also the house of Judah has anointed me king over them.”

Ish-bosheth Made King over Israel

Now (A)Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul’s army, had taken [b]Ish-bosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to (B)Mahanaim. And he made him king over (C)Gilead, over the (D)Ashurites, over (E)Jezreel, over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, even over all Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 2:7 Lit sons of valor
  2. 2 Samuel 2:8 Lit man of shame, also known as Eshbaal, cf. 1 Chr 8:33