Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Samuel 2:9

9 And he made him king over Gilead , and over the Ashurites , and over Jezreel , and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel .

Largely so taken for all the Land of Israel beyond Iordan, as it is Ios. 22. 9. Iudg. 10. 8.

i. e. The Tribe of Asher, as the Chaldee Paraphrast and others understand it.

A large and rich Valley scituate in the Borders of the Tribes of Zebulun, Issachar and Napthali, and so put Synecdochically for them all.

Except Iudah, as it follows.

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