²⁹ Of the Benjaminites, ^(A)the kinsmen of Saul, 3,000, of whom the ^(B)majority had to that point kept their allegiance to the house of Saul.

Ish-bosheth Made King of Israel

⁸ But ^(A)Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul's army, took Ish-bosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to ^(B)Mahanaim, ⁹ and he made him king over Gilead and the Ashurites and Jezreel and Ephraim and Benjamin and all Israel.

² They ^(A)were bowmen and could shoot arrows and sling stones with either the right or the ^(B)left hand; they were Benjaminites, ^(C)Saul's kinsmen.

²³ he took his kinsmen with him and pursued him for seven days and followed close after him into the hill country of Gilead.