2 Samuel 2:7-9

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

⁷ So now, let your hands be strengthened and be valiant, for your master Saul is dead, and the house of Judah has anointed me king over them.

⁸ Now Abner son of Ner, commander of Saul’s army, took Ish-bosheth son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim.

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