2 Samuel 2:8 BBE

⁶  May the Lord be good and true to you: and I myself will see that your kind act is rewarded, because you have done this thing.

⁷  Then let your hands be strong, and have no fear: though Saul your lord is dead, the people of Judah have made me their king.

⁸  Now Abner, the son of Ner, captain of Saul's army, had taken Saul's son Ish-bosheth over to Mahanaim,

⁹  And made him king over Gilead and the Asherites and over Jezreel and Ephraim and Benjamin, that is, over all Israel.

¹⁰  (Saul's son Ish-bosheth was forty years old when he became king over Israel, and he was ruler for two years.) But Judah was on the side of David.