6. So now may Adonai show you kindness and faithfulness; and I also will show you goodness because you have done this thing.
7. Now therefore, be strong and brave, for Saul your lord is dead, and also the house of Judah has anointed me king over them.”
8. Now Abner son of Ner, Saul’s army commander, had taken Saul’s son Ish-bosheth, and brought him over to Mahanaim.
9. Then he made him king over Gilead, Asher, Jezreel, Ephraim, and Benjamin—over all Israel.
10. Saul’s son Ish-bosheth was 40 years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned for two years. But the house of Judah followed David.
11. The time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.