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2 Kings 2:10

Isboseth the son of Saul was forty years old when he began to reign over, Israel, and he reigned two years: and only the house of Juda followed David.

Challoner: He reigned two yearsViz., before he began visibly to decline: but in all he reigned seven years and six months; for so long David reigned in Hebron.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): Quadraginta annorum erat Isboseth filius Saul cum regnare cœpisset super Israël, et duobus annis regnavit : sola autem domus Juda sequebatur David.
Septuagint (Swete): τεσσεράκοντα ἐτῶν Ἰεβόσθε υἱὸς Σαοὺλ ὅτε ἐβασίλευσεν ⸆ ἐπὶ τὸν Ἰσραήλ, καὶ δύο ἔτη ἐβασίλευσεν, πλὴν τοῦ οἴκου Ἰούδα οἳ ἦσαν ὀπίσω Δαυείδ.
Hebrew (WLC): בֶּן אַרְבָּעִ֨ים שָׁנָ֜ה אִֽישׁ בֹּ֣שֶׁת בֶּן שָׁא֗וּל בְּמָלְכוֹ֙ עַל יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וּשְׁתַּ֥יִם שָׁנִ֖ים מָלָ֑ךְ אַ֚ךְ בֵּ֣ית יְהוּדָ֔ה הָי֖וּ אַחֲרֵ֥י דָוִֽד

Haydock's commentary

He reigned two years, viz., before he began visibly to decline: but in all he reigned seven years and six months: for so long David reigned in Hebron. (Challoner) (Worthington)

The Jews admit of an interregnum in Israel of above five years, which is by no means probable. Two years elapsed before the two houses came to an open war; (Salien) soon after which, the power of Isboseth was greatly weakened by the defeat, and afterwards by the defection, of Abner. (Haydock)

Hence the sacred historian refers to the commencement of hostilities, and not to the end of Isboseth's dominion. (Estius; Tirinus; Calmet)

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.