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Ish-bosheth Saul's son was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. ( 2 Samuel 2:8–10 , Jewish Publication Society, 1917) When he was assassinated and King David punished the killers:
Rechab (Hebrew: רֵכָב Rēḵāḇ) is the name of three men in the Bible: . Rechab the father of Jonadab by Hartmann Schedel's book called Nuremberg Chronicles. One of the two "captains of bands" whom Saul's son Ish-bosheth took into his service, and who conspired to kill him.
In the Biblical narrative, around the start of the United Monarchy, the city was a stronghold that had been adapted to serve as a sanctuary for important fugitives (2 Samuel 18:2); the narrative states that after King Saul died, Abner, the commander of Saul’s army, established Saul’s son, Ish-bosheth, in Mahanaim as king of Israel (2 Samuel ...
David is anointed king in Hebron but only over Judah. Saul's son, Ishbaal, is taken by Abner to Mahanaim and appointed king of Israel. The two sides meet at Gibeon. After a fierce battle, David's side wins. Asahel, brother of Joab, David's commander, sets out after Abner, but Abner thrusts his javelin into Asahel.
Following the death of Saul, there was a bloody civil war between a Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah, represented respectively by the House of Saul and David. It lasted for two years. At the end of it, Saul's son and successor Ishbaal (Ish-bosheth) was assassinated.
For some time afterward, the war was carried on, the advantage being invariably on the side of David. At length, Ish-bosheth lost the main prop of his tottering cause by accusing Abner of sleeping with Rizpah, [7] one of Saul's concubines, an alliance which, according to contemporary notions, would imply pretensions to the throne. [8]
Three of Saul's sons – Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua – died with him at Mount Gilboa. [11] His surviving son Ish-bosheth became king of Israel, at the age of forty. At David's request Abner had Michal returned to David. Ish-bosheth reigned for two years, but after the death of Abner, was killed by two of his own captains. [12]
Meanwhile, in the north, Saul's son Ish-bosheth, supported by Abner, has taken control of the northern tribes. David and Ish-bosheth's armies meet at the Pool of Gibeon, and Abner and Joab, another son of Zeruiah and David's general, agree to have soldiers fight in one-on-one combat. All this achieves is twelve men on each side killing each ...