Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be valiant, for Saul your lord is dead, and (A)the house of Judah has anointed me king over them.”

Ish-bosheth Made King of Israel

But (B)Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul's army, took Ish-bosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to (C)Mahanaim, and he made him king over Gilead and the Ashurites and Jezreel and Ephraim and Benjamin and all Israel.

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