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2 Samuel 2:7

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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.

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  1. 2 Samuel 2:5

    And David sent messengers unto the men of Jabesh–gilead, and said unto them, Blessed be ye of the Lord, that ye have shewed this kindness unto your lord, even unto Saul, and have buried him.

  2. 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.

  3. 2 Samuel 2:8

    But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul’s host, took Ish–bosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;

  4. 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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