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ISRAEL, UNDER THE KINGS BEFORE THE SEPARATION INTO TWO KINGDOMS
2 Samuel 2:8-10
8. Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's army, had taken Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;
9. and he 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 he reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.