2 Samuel 2:10

10 Is-boset, hijo de Saúl, tenía cuarenta años cuando llegó a ser rey, y gobernó desde Mahanaim dos años. Mientras tanto, el pueblo de Judá permaneció leal a David.

2 Samuel 2:10 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 2:10

Ishbosheth, Saul's son, [was] forty years old when he began to
reign over Israel
Being born the same year his father began to reign. (See Gill on 1 Samuel 31:6);

and reigned two years;
which some understand of these, and no more; and whereas David reigned seven years and a half over Judah, before he reigned over all Israel, it is thought by the Jewish chronologer ^F3 that there was a vacancy in the throne of Israel for the space of five years, and so says Kimchi; which vacancy was either before the reign of Ishbosheth, it being a matter in dispute whether he or Mephibosheth should be set up, or after his death; the tribes of Israel being so long before they acknowledged David their king; or Ishbosheth's reign of two years must be in the middle of David's reign over Judah; but there is no need to suppose either of these, for the text says not that Ishbosheth reigned only two years; but the meaning is, as Ben Gersom observes, that he had reigned two years when the following things happened, and a war began, and not by him but by Abner, and carried on by him; and he being an inactive prince, the rest of his reign was reckoned as no reign, whereas he lived and reigned the same length of time David did over Judah; see ( 2 Samuel 3:1 ) ;

but the house of Judah followed David;
kept close to him as their king, yielding a cheerful obedience to him.

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FOOTNOTES:

F3 Seder Olam Rabba, c. 13. p. 37.

2 Samuel 2:10 In-Context

8 Is-boset es proclamado rey de Israel
Sin embargo, Abner, hijo de Ner, comandante del ejército de Saúl, ya había ido a Mahanaim con Is-boset,
hijo de Saúl.

9 Allí proclamó a Is-boset rey de Galaad, de Jezreel, de Efraín, de Benjamín, de la tierra de los gesuritas y del resto de Israel.

10 Is-boset, hijo de Saúl, tenía cuarenta años cuando llegó a ser rey, y gobernó desde Mahanaim dos años. Mientras tanto, el pueblo de Judá permaneció leal a David.

11 David hizo de Hebrón su ciudad capital y gobernó como rey de Judá siete años y medio.

12 Guerra entre Israel y Judá
Cierto día, Abner dirigió a las tropas de Is-boset desde Mahanaim a Gabaón.