27. Then Joab said, “As surely as God is alive, if you had not said something, people would still be chasing their brothers in the morning.”
28. So Joab blew a trumpet, and his people stopped chasing the Israelites. They did not try to fight the Israelites anymore.
29. Abner and his men marched all night through the Jordan Valley. They crossed the Jordan River and then marched all day until they came to Mahanaim.
30. Joab stopped chasing Abner and turned back. Joab had gathered his men and learned that 19 of David’s officers were missing, including Asahel.
31. But David’s officers had killed 360 of Abner’s men from the tribe of Benjamin.
32. David’s officers took Asahel and buried him in the tomb of his father at Bethlehem. Joab and his men marched all night. The sun came up just as they reached Hebron.