10:002:018 And there were three sons of Zeruiah there,
Joab, and Abishai,
and
Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild
roe.
10:002:019 And Asahel pursued after Abner; and in
going he turned not to
the
right hand nor to the left from following Abner.
10:002:020 Then Abner looked behind him, and said,
Art thou Asahel? And
he
answered, I am.
10:002:021 And Abner said to him, Turn thee aside
to thy right hand or to
thy
left, and lay thee hold on one of the young men, and
take
thee
his armour. But Asahel would not turn aside from
following
of him.
10:002:022 And Abner said again to Asahel, Turn thee
aside from following
me:
wherefore should I smite thee to the ground? how then
should
I hold up my face to Joab thy brother?
10:002:023 Howbeit he refused to turn aside:
wherefore Abner with the
hinder
end of the spear smote him under the fifth rib, that
the
spear came out behind him; and he fell down there,
and
died
in the same place: and it came to pass, that as
many as
came
to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood
still.
10:002:024 Joab also and Abishai pursued after Abner:
and the sun went
down
when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that lieth
before
Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.
10:002:025 And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves
together
after
Abner, and became one troop, and stood on the top of
an
hill.
10:002:026 Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall
the sword devour
for
ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in
the
latter
end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people
return
from following their brethren?
10:002:027 And Joab said, As God liveth, unless thou
hadst spoken, surely
then
in the morning the people had gone up every one from
following
his brother.
10:002:028 So Joab blew a trumpet, and all the people
stood still, and
pursued
after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.
10:002:029 And Abner and his men walked all that night
through the plain,
and
passed over Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and
they
came
to Mahanaim.
10:002:030 And Joab returned from following Abner:
and when he had
gathered
all the people together, there lacked of David’s
servants
nineteen men and Asahel.
10:002:031 But the servants of David had smitten of
Benjamin, and of
Abner’s
men, so that three hundred and threescore men died.
10:002:032 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 break of day.


