27. Joab said, “As God lives, for if you had not spoken, the people would surely have gone up in the morning, each one of them from following after his brother.”
28. Then Joab blew on the trumpet and all the people stopped, and they no longer pursued after Israel, and they did not fight with them again.
29. Then Abner and his men went through the Arabah all that night, and they crossed over the Jordan. They went all the forenoon and came to Mahanaim.
30. After Joab returned from pursuing Abner, he gathered all the people; nineteen of the servants of David were missing along with Asahel.
31. The servants of David had killed some of the Benjaminites among the men of Abner; three hundred and sixty men had died.
32. Then they picked up Asahel and buried him in the grave of his father, which was at Bethlehem. Joab and his men went all that night arriving in Hebron at first light.