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Father. Saul. Ish-bosheth ( Hebrew: אִישׁ־בֹּשֶׁת, romanized : ʼĪš-bōšeṯ, "man of shame"), also called Eshbaal ( אֶשְׁבַּעַל , ’Ešba‘al; alternatively spelled Ishbaal, "man of Baal ") was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the Jewish monarch and the second king of the United Kingdom of Israel. After the ...
Ish-bosheth (also called Eshba'al, Ashba'al, or Ishbaal ), was the second king of Israel, succeeding his father Saul after his death at the Battle of Mount Gilboa. He reigned for several years from the city of Mahanaim the late eleventh century B.C.E., facing a civil war led by the future king David and his powerful general Joab .
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. ISH-BOSHETH. ish-bo'-sheth ('ish-bosheth, "man of shame" Iesbosthe): Called 'eshba`al, "man of Baal" ( 1 Chronicles 8:33 ), and yishwi, "man of Yahweh" (?), perhaps for 'isheyo ( 1 Samuel 14:49 ). Compare ESHBAAL and ISHVI (the King James Version "Ishui").
[many Ish'-bosheth,' (Heb. Ish-bo'sheth, אַישׁאּבּשֶׁת, man of shame, i.e. bashful, otherwise disgraceful; Sept. Ι᾿σβόσεθ v. r. Ι᾿εβοσθέ, Joseph. Ι᾿έβοσθος, Vulg. Isboseth), the youngest of Saul's four sons, and his legitimate successor, being the only one who survived him (2 Samuel 2-4)..
ISH-BOSHETH (lit. "man of shame"): By: Emil G. Hirsch, M. Seligsohn. Fourth and youngest son of Saul, and, as the sole male survivor in direct line of descent, his legitimate successor to the throne (II Sam. ii. 8 et seq. ). His original name was "Esh-baal (= "man of ba'al" [then, Yhwh ]; see I Chron. viii. 33, ix. 39).
Ish-boh´shith; Heb., “man of shame” The fourth son of Saul ( 2Sam 3:14-15 ). This version of his name appears in the book of Samuel and is, according to most modern scholars, a theologically corrected reading of the original name Eshbaal (“gift of Baal”), which is preserved in ( 1Chr 8:33 and 1Chr 9:39 ).
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