2 Samuel 2:15

So they got up and went over by number: twelve for Benjamin and Ish-bosheth and twelve of the servants of David.

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Then there arose and went over by number twelve of Benjamin, which pertained to Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.

In Context

14And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men give a test of their strength before us. And Joab said, Let them do so.

16And every one got the other by the head, driving his sword into the other's side, so they all went down together: and that place was named the Field of Sides, and it is in Gibeon.

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Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 2:9-18

A Civil War in Israel. ( b. c. 1053.) 8 But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim; 9 And made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel. 10 Ishbosheth Saul's son was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David. 11 And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years… Read the whole commentary →

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