26Then crying out to Joab, Abner said, Are fighting and destruction to go on for ever? do you not see that the end will only be bitter? how long will it be before you send the people back and make them give up attacking their countrymen?
27And Joab said, By the living God, if you had not given the word, the people would have gone on attacking their countrymen till the morning.
28So Joab had a horn sounded, and all the people came to a stop, and gave up going after Israel and fighting them.
29And all that night Abner and his men went through the Arabah; they went over Jordan and through all Bithron and came to Mahanaim.
30And Joab came back from fighting Abner: and when he had got all his men together, it was seen that nineteen of David's men, in addition to Asahel, were not with them.
31But David's men had put to death three hundred and sixty of the men of Benjamin and of Abner's men
32And they took Asahel's body and put it in the last resting-place of his father in Beth-lehem. And Joab and his men, travelling all night, came to Hebron at dawn.
