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2 Samuel 2:28-32 Good News Bible (GNB)

28. Then Joab blew the trumpet as a signal for his men to stop pursuing the Israelites; and so the fighting stopped.

29. Abner and his men marched through the Jordan Valley all that night; they crossed the River Jordan, and after marching all the next morning, they arrived back at Mahanaim.

30. When Joab gave up the chase, he gathered all his men and found that nineteen of them were missing, in addition to Asahel.

31. David's men had killed 360 of Abner's men from the tribe of Benjamin.

32. Joab and his men took Asahel's body and buried it in the family tomb at Bethlehem. Then they marched all night and at dawn arrived back at Hebron.