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And Joab and Abishai ran after Abner, and the sun was going. And they came to the hill of Ammah which is before Giah, by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.

And the sons of Benjamin gathered themselves after Abner, and became one troop, and stood on the top of a certain hill.

And Abner called to Joab, and said, Does the sword devour forever? Do you not know that it will be bitter in the end? And until when will you say to the people to turn back from after their brothers?

And Joab said, As God lives, for if you had not spoken, surely then in the morning the people would have gone up, each one from following his brother.

And Joab blew the ram's horn. And all the people stood still, and did not pursue Israel any more; nor did they fight any more.

And Abner and his men went through the Arabah all that night, and crossed the Jordan, and went all the forenoon, and came to Mahanaim.

And Joab returned from pursuing Abner. And he gathered all the people. And there were lacking nineteen men of David's servants, and Asahel.

And David's servants had struck three hundred and sixty men of Benjamin, even among the men of Abner these died.

And they lifted up Asahel and buried him in the burying place of his father, which is in Bethlehem. And they went all night, Joab and his men; and it was light to them coming into Hebron.