3:8 These words of Ish-bosheth really angered Abner and he said, “Am I the head of a dog that belongs to Judah? This very day I am demonstrating 4 loyalty to the house of Saul your father and to his relatives 5 and his friends! I have not betrayed you into the hand of David. Yet you have accused me of sinning with this woman today! 6 3:9 God will severely judge Abner 7 if I do not do for David exactly what the Lord has promised him, 8 3:10 namely, to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and to establish the throne of David over Israel and over Judah all the way from Dan to Beer Sheba!” 3:11 Ish-bosheth 9 was unable to answer Abner with even a single word because he was afraid of him.