24. But Joab and Abishai pursued after Abner, and the sun went down when they were come to the hill of Ammah that lies before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.
25. And the sons of Benjamin gathered themselves together in one troop with Abner and stood on the top of a hill.
26. Then Abner called to Joab and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? Dost thou not know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long shall it be then before thou bid the people to return from following their brethren?
27. And Joab replied, As God lives, if thou had not spoken, surely from this morning the people would have left off from following their brothers.
28. So Joab blew the shofar, and all the people stood still and no longer pursued after Israel, neither did they fight any more.
29. And Abner and his men walked all that night through the plain, and passing the Jordan, they went through all Bithron, and they came to Mahanaim.
30. Joab also returned from following Abner, and when he had gathered all the people together, there lacked of David’s slaves nineteen men and Asahel.
31. But the slaves of David had smitten of Benjamin and of Abner’s men, so that three hundred and sixty men died.