2 Samuel 2:12
And Abenner the son of Ner went forth, and the servants of Jebosthe the son of Saul, from Manaem to Gabaon.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
11And the days which David reigned in Chebron over the house of Juda were seven years and six months.
Cross References
Genesis 32:2And Jacob departed for his journey; and having looked up, he saw the + 32:2 Gr. camp.host of God encamped; and the angels of God met him.
Joshua 10:2then they were greatly terrified by them, for the king knew that Gabaon was a great city, as one of the + 10:2 Gr. mother-cities.chief cities, and all its men were mighty.
Joshua 10:12Then Joshua spoke to the Lord, in the day in which the Lord delivered the Amorite into the power of Israel, when he destroyed them in Gabaon, and they were destroyed from before the children of Israel: and Joshua said, Let the sun stand over against Gabaon, and the moon over against the valley of Ælon.
2 Samuel 17:14And Abessalom, and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Chusi the Arachite is better than the counsel of Achitophel. For the Lord ordained to disconcert the good counsel of Achitophel, that the Lord might bring all evil upon Abessalom.
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 →