27. Joab responded, “As God lives, I assure you that if you had not said this, the people would have each pursued his brother throughout the night.”
28. So Joab blew a trumpet, and all the people stood still. They pursued Israel no longer, nor did they continue to fight anymore.
29. So Abner and his men traveled through the Arabah all that night, crossed the Jordan, and marched all morning until they returned to Mahanaim.
30. Joab refrained from pursuing Abner, but instead mustered all of the people. There were nineteen men besides Asahel missing from among the servants of David.
31. But the servants of David routed Benjamin and the men of Abner; three hundred and sixty of their men died.
32. They carried Asahel back and interred him in his father’s tomb, which was at Bethlehem. Then Joab and his men traveled throughout the night and reached Hebron at dawn.