KJV King James Version
And made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.
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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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
and made him king over Gilead, Asher, Jezreel, Ephraim, and Benjamin—over all Israel.
WEB World English Bible
and he made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.
ASV American Standard Version
and he made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and causeth him to reign over Gilead, and over the Ashurite, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over Israel—all of it.
Surrounding context — 2 Samuel 2
6 And now the LORD shew kindness and truth unto you: and I also will requite you this kindness, because ye have done this thing.
7 Therefore now let your hands be strengthened, and be ye valiant: for your master Saul is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them.
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 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.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וַיַּמְלִכֵ֙הוּ֙H4427 · ma.lakhto reignאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)הַגִּלְעָ֔דH1568 · gil.adGileadוְאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)הָאֲשׁוּרִ֖יH805 · a.shu.riAsshurimוְאֶֽל־H413 · elto(wards)יִזְרְעֶ֑אלH3157 · yiz.re.elJezreelוְעַל־H5921 · aluponאֶפְרַ֙יִם֙H669 · eph.ra.yimEphraimוְעַל־H5921 · aluponבִּנְיָמִ֔ןH1144 · bin.ya.minBenjaminוְעַל־H5921 · aluponיִשְׂרָאֵ֖לH3478 · yis.ra.elIsraelכֻּלֹּֽה׃ פH3605 · kolall
Cross-references
Psalm 108:8Gilead [is] mine; Manasseh [is] mine; Ephraim also [is] the strength of mine head; Judah [is] my lawgiver;Numbers 1:40Of the children of Asher, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;Numbers 32:1-42Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place [was] a place for cattle;Joshua 19:18And their border was toward Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem,Joshua 13:8-11With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward, [even] as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them;Judges 1:32But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: for they did not drive them out.Genesis 30:13And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.
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