2 Samuel 2:9

Good News Translation

There Abner made Ishbosheth king of the territories of Gilead, Asher, Jezreel, Ephraim, and Benjamin, and indeed over all Israel.

Cross References

Genesis 30:13

and Leah said, “How happy I am! Now women will call me happy”; so she named him Asher.

2 Samuel 2:10

He was forty years old when he was made king of Israel, and he ruled for two years. But the tribe of Judah was loyal to David,

2 Samuel 3:6

As the fighting continued between David's forces and the forces loyal to Saul's family, Abner became more and more powerful among Saul's followers.

Psalm 108:8

Gilead is mine, and Manasseh too; Ephraim is my helmet and Judah my royal scepter.

Joshua 16:5

This was the territory of the Ephraimite families: their border ran from Ataroth Addar eastward to Upper Beth Horon,

Joshua 16:8

The border went west from Tappuah to the stream Kanah and ended at the Mediterranean Sea. This was the land given to the families of the tribe of Ephraim as their possession,

Joshua 16:9

along with some towns and villages that were within the borders of Manasseh, but given to the Ephraimites.

Joshua 17:1

A part of the land west of the Jordan was assigned to some of the families descended from Joseph's older son Manasseh. Machir, the father of Gilead, was Manasseh's oldest son and a military hero, so Gilead and Bashan, east of the Jordan, were assigned to him.

Joshua 18:11

The territory belonging to the families of the tribe of Benjamin was the first to be assigned. Their land lay between the tribes of Judah and Joseph.

Joshua 18:20

The Jordan was the eastern border. These were the borders of the land which the families of the tribe of Benjamin received as their possession.

Joshua 19:18

Its area included Jezreel, Chesulloth, Shunem,

Joshua 22:9

So the people of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and East Manasseh went back home. They left the rest of the people of Israel at Shiloh in the land of Canaan and started out for their own land, the land of Gilead, which they had taken as the Lord had commanded them through Moses.

Judges 1:32

The people of Asher lived with the local Canaanites, since they had not been driven out.

1 Samuel 29:1

The Philistines brought all their troops together at Aphek, while the Israelites camped at the spring in Jezreel Valley.