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.
32. And they took up Asahel and buried him in the sepulchre of his father, which was in Bethlehem. And Joab and his men went all night, and they came to Hebron at the break of day.