26. Then Abner called to Joab, Shall the sword devour forever? Do you not know that bitterness will be the result? How long will it be then before you bid the people to stop pursuing their brethren?
27. Joab said, As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely the men would have stopped pursuing their brethren in the morning.
28. So Joab blew a trumpet, and all the people stood still and pursued Israel no more, nor did they fight any more.
29. Abner and his men went all night through the Arabah [plain], crossed the Jordan, and went through the whole Bithron [district of ravines] and came to Mahanaim.
30. Joab returned from pursuing Abner, and when he had gathered all the people together, there were missing of David's servants nineteen men besides Asahel.
31. But the servants of David had slain of Benjamin 360 of Abner's men.
32. And they took up Asahel and buried him in the tomb of his father at Bethlehem. And Joab and his men walked all night and came to Hebron at daybreak.