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2 Samuel 2:7-9
GOD’S WORD Translation
2 Samuel 2:7-9
GOD’S WORD Translation
7 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
8 Ner’s son Abner, commander of Saul’s army, took Saul’s son Ishbosheth [a] and brought him to Mahanaim. 9 Abner made him king of Gilead, Asher,[b] Jezreel, Ephraim, and Benjamin, that is, all Israel.
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- 2:8 Masoretic Text; 1 Chronicles 8:33; 9:39, Greek “Ishbaal.”
- 2:9 Or “the Ashurites.”
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