28. Joab took his trumpet and blew the signal for his soldiers to stop chasing the soldiers of Israel. Straight away, the fighting stopped.
29. Abner and his troops marched through the Jordan Valley all that night. Then they crossed the river and marched all morning until they arrived back at Mahanaim.
30. As soon as Joab stopped chasing Abner, he got David's troops together and counted them. There were nineteen missing besides Asahel.
31. But David's soldiers had killed 360 of Abner's men from the tribe of Benjamin.
32. Joab and his troops carried Asahel's body to Bethlehem and buried him in the family burial place. Then they marched all night and reached Hebron before sunrise.