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"Now may the LORD show lovingkindness and truth to you; and I also will show this goodness to you, because you have done this thing.
"Now therefore, let your hands be strong and be valiant; for Saul your lord is dead, and also the house of Judah has anointed me king over them."
But Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul's army, had taken Ish-bosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim.
He made him king over Gilead, over the Ashurites, over Jezreel, over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, even over all Israel.
Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, was forty years old when he became king over Israel, and he was king for two years. The house of Judah, however, followed David.
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你們既行了這事、願耶和華以慈愛誠實待你們.我也要為此厚待你們。
現在你們的主掃羅死了、猶大家已經膏我作他們的王、所以你們要剛強奮勇。
掃羅的元帥尼珥的兒子押尼珥、曾將掃羅的兒子伊施波設、帶過河到瑪哈念.
立他作王治理基列、亞書利、耶斯列、以法蓮、便雅憫、和以色列眾人。
掃羅的兒子伊施波設登基的時候、年四十歲、作以色列王二年.惟獨猶大家歸從大衛。
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