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2 Samuel 2:9

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He made him king over Gilead, Ashuri and Jezreel, and also over Ephraim, Benjamin and all Israel.

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Then Leah said, “How happy I am! The women will call me happy.” So she named him Asher.

Ish-Bosheth son of Saul was forty years old when he became king over Israel, and he reigned two years. The tribe of Judah, however, remained loyal to David.

During the war between the house of Saul and the house of David, Abner had been strengthening his own position in the house of Saul.

from Benjamin, Saul’s tribe—3,000, most of whom had remained loyal to Saul’s house until then;

from Ephraim, brave warriors, famous in their own clans—20,800;

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

From the descendants of Asher: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.

This was the territory of Ephraim, according to its clans: The boundary of their inheritance went from Ataroth Addar in the east to Upper Beth Horon

From Tappuah the border went west to the Kanah Ravine and ended at the Mediterranean Sea. This was the inheritance of the tribe of the Ephraimites, according to its clans.

It also included all the towns and their villages that were set aside for the Ephraimites within the inheritance of the Manassites.

This was the allotment for the tribe of Manasseh as Joseph’s firstborn, that is, for Makir, Manasseh’s firstborn. Makir was the ancestor of the Gileadites, who had received Gilead and Bashan because the Makirites were great soldiers.

The first lot came up for the tribe of Benjamin according to its clans. Their allotted territory lay between the tribes of Judah and Joseph:

The Jordan formed the boundary on the eastern side. These were the boundaries that marked out the inheritance of the clans of Benjamin on all sides.

Their territory included: Jezreel, Kesulloth, Shunem,

So the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites at Shiloh in Canaan to return to Gilead, their own land, which they had acquired in accordance with the command of the Lord through Moses.

The Asherites lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land because they did not drive them out.

The Philistines gathered all their forces at Aphek, and Israel camped by the spring in Jezreel.




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