KJV King James Version
And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
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2 Samuel 2:12
And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
One day Abner son of Ner and the servants of Ish-bosheth son of Saul marched out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
WEB World English Bible
Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
ASV American Standard Version
And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And Abner son of Ner goeth out, and servants of Ish-Bosheth son of Saul, from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
Surrounding context — 2 Samuel 2
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 and six months.
12 And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
13 And Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out, and met together by the pool of Gibeon: and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.
14 And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men now arise, and play before us. And Joab said, Let them arise.
15 Then there arose and went over by number twelve of Benjamin, which [pertained] to Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.
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וַיֵּצֵא֙H3318 · ya.tsato come out: comeאַבְנֵ֣רH74 · av.nerAbnerבֶּן־H1121 · benson: childנֵ֔רH5369 · nerNerוְעַבְדֵ֖יH5650 · e.vedservant/slaveאִֽישׁ־H378 · ish-bo.shetIsh-boshethבֹּ֣שֶׁתH378 · ish-bo.shetIsh-boshethבֶּן־H1121 · benson: childשָׁא֑וּלH7586 · sha.ulSaulמִֽמַּחֲנַ֖יִםH4266 · ma.cha.na.yimMahanaimגִּבְעֽוֹנָה׃H1391 · giv.onGibeon
Cross-references
Joshua 9:3And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai,Joshua 18:25Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,Joshua 10:4Come up unto me, and help me, that we may smite Gibeon: for it hath made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.Joshua 10:2That they feared greatly, because Gibeon [was] a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it [was] greater than Ai, and all the men thereof [were] mighty.Genesis 32:2And when Jacob saw them, he said, This [is] God’s host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.Joshua 10:12Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.2 Samuel 17:14And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite [is] better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.
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