2 Samuel 2:11

And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah,.... And over them only:

was seven years and six months; to which being added thirty three years he reigned over all Israel in…

Here is, I. A rivalship between two kings - David, whom God made king, and Ishbosheth, whom Abner made king. One would have thought, when Saul was slain, and all his sons that had sense and spirit…

Ish-bosheth set up by Abner as a rival to David

8. Abner Both by his relationship of first cousin to Saul (1Sa 14:50, note), and by his office as commander of the army, Abner was marked out as the…