Events that occurred after King Saul and
3 of his sons were dead, and David began
to reign only over the tribe of Judah:
But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim; And made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel. Ishbosheth Saul's son was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David. And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.-2 Samuel 2:8-11***King Saul was married to at least 1 wife, Ahinoam, and was in a relationship with at least 1 concubine, Rizpah, and was the father of at least 8 children, Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadad (Ishui?), Ishbosheth (Eshbaal), Armoni, Mephibosheth, Merab, and Michal. At least twice after Saul was anointed and became the 1st king to reign over the Israelites in the Promised Land, Saul did not obey the commands of the Lord God. The divinely inspired Scriptures of the Holy Bible reveal that the Lord God tore the kingdom from Saul and sent Samuel, the priest, prophet and judge who had anointed Saul, to anoint David to reign as king. Initially, David served as a musician and an armor-bearer for Saul. After David killed and beheaded Goliath the gigantic Philistine, Saul kept David in his service full time, and David and Jonathan made a covenant, and the Israelite woman sang of David higher than they sang of Saul. Saul was angry, and became afraid of David, and tried to kill David, and sent David on missions to get killed, and commanded others, including Jonathan, to kill David. Saul planned for Merab to become David's wife. However, Michal became David's wife, and helped David escape from their home. While David was on the run, Saul arranged a marriage between Michal and Palti (Phalti/Phaltiel/Paltiel), and David became the husband of Abigail the widow and Ahinoam from Jezreel. Jezreel was in the portion of the Promised Land allotted to the tribe of Judah, David's birth tribe, the tribe of Israelites descended from Abraham (Abram the Hebrew) and Sarah (Sarai), Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob (Israel) and his 1st wife Leah, and Jacob and Leah's 4th born son Judah. After Jonathan, Malchishua and Abinadab were killed by the Philistines, and Saul's self-inflicted death on the same battlefield, men from the tribe of Judah anointed 30-year-old David and David began to reign only over the tribe of Judah. Saul's cousin and army commander Abner placed Ishbosheth as king over the other Israelite tribes. The tribes of Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Issachar, and Zebulun descended from the other sons born to Jacob and Leah. The tribes of Dan and Naphtali descended from the sons born to Jacob and maidservant Bilhah. The tribes of Gad and Asher descended from the sons born to Jacob and maidservant Zilpah. The tribe of Benjamin, the birth tribe of Saul, Abner and their family, descended from the 2nd and last son born to Jacob and his 2nd wife Rachel. The tribe of Jacob and Rachel's firstborn son Joseph became the tribe of Manasseh and the tribe of Ephraim after Jacob proclaimed Manasseh and Ephraim to be his own sons. Mahanaim and Gilead were places on the other side of the Jordan River, the side that the Israelites had wandered through during their 40-year journey from Egypt to the Promised Land, the land that the Lord God promised to give to Abraham, and Isaac, and to Jacob, and their descendants. Sometime after Ishbosheth was murdered, the Israelite elders went to David and David made a covenant with them. The elders anointed 37-year-old David and David began to reign over all of the Israelite tribes. Over 900 years after 70-year-old David died and his body was buried in the City of David, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born in Bethlehem, approximately 6 miles from the City of David, into the tribe of Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin.-Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, Deuteronomy 31:1-34:12, Joshua, Judges 1:1-2:23, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Ezra 1:1-11, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26
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