11 The here reads “the Ashurite,” but this is problematic if it is taken to mean “the Assyrian.” Ish-bosheth’s kingdom obviously was not of such proportions as to extend to Assyria. The renders the word as “the Geshurite,” while the has “of the house of Ashur.” We should probably emend the Hebrew text to read “the Geshurite.” The Geshurites lived in the northeastern part of the land of Palestine.

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and he made him king over Gilead and the Ashurites and Jezreel and Ephraim and Benjamin and all Israel.

He made him king over Gilead, Ashuri and Jezreel, and also over Ephraim, Benjamin and all Israel.

He made him king over Gilead, Asher, Jezreel, Ephraim, Benjamin—over all Israel.

There he proclaimed Ishbosheth king over Gilead, Jezreel, Ephraim, Benjamin, the land of the Ashurites, and all the rest of Israel.

He made him king over Gilead, over the Ashurites, over Jezreel, over Ephraim, over Benjamin, and over Israel, all of it.

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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