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

² When he saw them, Jacob said, "This is God's host." 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 to Ramath Mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir;