2 Samuel 2:12

2:12 Then Abner son of Ner and the servants of Ish-bosheth son of Saul went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.

2 Samuel 3:15

3:15 So Ish-bosheth took her ¹  from her husband Paltiel ²  son of Laish.

2 Samuel 2:8

David’s Army Clashes with the Army of Saul

2:8 Now Abner son of Ner, the general in command of Saul’s army, had taken Saul’s son Ish-bosheth ³  and had brought him to Mahanaim.

2 Samuel 2:15

2:15 So they got up and crossed over by number: twelve belonging to Benjamin and to Ish-bosheth son of Saul, and twelve from the servants of David.

2 Samuel 4:5

4:5 Now the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite – Recab and Baanah – went at the hottest part of the day to the home of Ish-bosheth, as he was enjoying his midday rest.

2 Samuel 4:8

4:8 They brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David in Hebron, saying to the king, “Look! The head of Ish-bosheth son of Saul, your enemy who sought your life! The Lord has granted vengeance to my lord the king this day against ⁴  Saul and his descendants!”

2 Samuel 2:10

2:10 Ish-bosheth son of Saul was forty years old when he began to rule over Israel. He ruled two years. However, the people ⁵  of Judah followed David.

2 Samuel 3:14

3:14 David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth son of Saul with this demand: ⁶  “Give me my wife Michal whom I acquired ⁷  for a hundred Philistine foreskins.”

2 Samuel 4:12

4:12 So David issued orders to the soldiers and they put them to death. Then they cut off their hands and feet and hung them ⁸  near the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth ⁹  and buried it in the tomb of Abner ¹⁰  in Hebron. ¹¹ 

2 Samuel 3:8

3:8 These words of Ish-bosheth really angered Abner and he said, “Am I the head of a dog that belongs to Judah? This very day I am demonstrating ¹²  loyalty to the house of Saul your father and to his relatives ¹³  and his friends! I have not betrayed you into the hand of David. Yet you have accused me of sinning with this woman today! ¹⁴ 

[3:15]  ¹ tn Heb “sent and took her.”

[3:15]  ² tn In 1 Sam 25:44 this name appears as “Palti.”

[2:8]  ¹ sn The name Ish-bosheth means in Hebrew “man of shame.” It presupposes an earlier form such as Ish-baal (“man of the Lord”), with the word “baal” being used of Israel’s God. But because the Canaanite storm god was named “Baal,” that part of the name was later replaced with the word “shame.”

[4:8]  ¹ tn Heb “from.”

[2:10]  ¹ tn Heb “house.”

[3:14]  ¹ tn Heb “to Ish-bosheth son of Saul saying.” To avoid excessive sibilance (especially when read aloud) the translation renders “saying” as “with this demand.”

[3:14]  ² tn Heb “whom I betrothed to myself.”

[4:12]  ¹ tn The antecedent of the pronoun “them” (which is not present in the Hebrew text, but implied) is not entirely clear. Presumably it is the corpses that were hung and not merely the detached hands and feet; cf. NIV “hung the (their NRSV, NLT) bodies”; the alternative is represented by TEV “cut off their hands and feet, which they hung up.”

[4:12]  ² tc 4QSam^a mistakenly reads “Mephibosheth” here.

[4:12]  ³ tc The LXX adds “the son of Ner” by conformity with common phraseology elsewhere.

[4:12]  ⁴ tc Some mss of the LXX lack the phrase “in Hebron.”

[3:8]  ¹ tn Heb “I do.”

[3:8]  ² tn Heb “brothers.”

[3:8]  ³ tn Heb “and you have laid upon me the guilt of the woman today.”