2 Samuel 2:7 CPDV

⁵  Therefore, David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh Gilead, and he said to them: 'Blessed are you to the Lord, who has accomplished this mercy with your lord Saul, so that you would bury him.

⁶  And now, certainly, the Lord will repay to you mercy and truth. But I also will act with favor, because you have accomplished this word.

⁷  Let your hands be strengthened, and be sons of fortitude. For even though your lord Saul has died, still the house of Judah has anointed me as king over them.'

⁸  Then Abner, the son of Ner, the leader of the army of Saul, took Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, and he led him around, throughout the camp.

⁹  And he appointed him as king over Gilead, and over Geshuri, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all of Israel.