This history is inserted as that which encouraged these men to this wicked murder, because Saul's family was now reduced to a low ebb; and if Ish-bosheth was dispatched, there would be none left but a lame child, who was altogether unfit to manage the kingdom, especially in so troublesome a time as this was; and therefore the crown must necessarily come to David by their act and deed, for which they promised themselves no small recompence. Jezreel; the place of that last and fatal fight, 1 Samuel 29:1. Mephibosheth; called also Merib-baal, 1 Chronicles 8:34. See Poole on "2 Samuel 2:8".

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