Saul …, a man of the tribe of Benjamin And to the speaker himself the same words applied. The forty years duration of Saul's reign is only to be gathered indirectly from Holy Writ, but Josephus (Antiq. vi. 14. 9) expressly states that time as the length of his reign, and as Ishbosheth, Saul's son, whom Abner set on the throne after his father's death, was forty years old when he began to reign (2 Samuel 2:10), we may conclude that the length assigned in the text is correct.

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