- verses
- 12
- first named
- 2 Samuel 2:8
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 9:39
- period
- United Monarchy
- tribe
- Benjamin
Description
Who was Ish-bosheth?
Ish-bosheth, also known as Eshbaal, was the fourth son of King Saul (1Ch.8.33, 9.39). After Saul's death, Abner, the commander of Saul's army, took Ish-bosheth and made him king over Israel, while David reigned over Judah (2Sa.2.8-10). Ish-bosheth was forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for two years.
During his reign, there was a long war between the house of Saul and the house of David (2Sa.3.1). Abner became angry with Ish-bosheth and defected to David (2Sa.3.8-21). Later, two of Ish-bosheth's captains, Rechab and Baanah, assassinated him while he was resting in his bed. They brought his head to David, hoping for a reward, but David had them executed for their crime (2Sa.4.5-12).
After Ish-bosheth's death, all the tribes of Israel came to David and acknowledged him as king over all Israel (2Sa.5.1-3). The name "Ish-bosheth" means "man of shame," while "Eshbaal" means "man of Baal." The name change may reflect the biblical writer's perspective on the contrast between Ish-bosheth's weak rule and David's divinely appointed kingship.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
The 10 best-attested of 20 are drawn. All 20 are listed below.
Child of
- Ahinoamregistry, no versewhich bearer is the source’s decision
- Saulregistry2 Samuel 4:11 Chronicles 8:331 Chronicles 9:39 +5
Sibling of
- Abinadabregistry, no verse
- Armoniregistry, no verse
- Jonathanregistry, no verse
- Malchi-shuaregistry, no verse
- Mephiboshethregistry, no verse
- Merabregistry, no verse
- Michalregistry, no verse
Stands in the same events as
- David4 events
- Abner4 events
- Baanah3 events
- Rechab3 events
- Israel2 events
- Benjamin2 events
- Michal2 events
- Ephraim1 event
- Delivery1 event
- Gilead1 event
- Asher1 event
- Jezreel1 event
and 2 more, ordered by how many events they share.
Places
Where this happens
The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.
The pattern
Where Ish-bosheth is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
12 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. Named in 2 Samuel (10) and 1 Chronicles (2).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 12, across 2 books. The name is written 13 times in them.
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
Sources