Ishbosheth
Rival King of Israel · 1055–1048 BC
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His Reign
- Reigned
- two years 2 Samuel 2:10
- Began to Reign
- forty years old 2 Samuel 2:10
- His Rival
- David
Ussher’s Years
- Reigned 1055–1048 BC
- “carrying Ishbosheth Sauls son to Mahanaem, there made him King over the rest of Israel”
Ussher reads his two years as his quiet reign, before the long war between his house and the house of David (2 Samuel 3:1).
Dated by Archbishop James Ussher’s Annals of the World (1658), quoted as printed.
