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Now, be strong and courageous. Because your master Saul is dead, the tribe of Judah has anointed me to be their king.”

Abner Makes Ishbosheth King of Israel

Ner’s son Abner, commander of Saul’s army, took Saul’s son Ishbosheth[a] and brought him to Mahanaim. Abner made him king of Gilead, Asher,[b] Jezreel, Ephraim, and Benjamin, that is, all Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 2:8 Masoretic Text; 1 Chronicles 8:33, 9:39, Greek “Ishbaal.”
  2. 2 Samuel 2:9 Or “the Ashurites.”

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