²⁴ Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.

² And Jacob said when he saw them, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

⁸ Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, had taken Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;

²⁶ and from Heshbon unto Ramath-mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir;