19
`Asa'el pursued after Aviner; and in going he didn't turn to the right hand nor to the left from following Aviner.
20
Then Aviner looked behind him, and said, Is it you, `Asa'el? He answered, It is I.
21
Aviner said to him, Turn you aside to your right hand or to your left, and lay you hold on one of the young men, and take you his armor. But `Asa'el would not turn aside from following him.
22
Aviner said again to `Asa'el, Turn you aside from following me: why should I strike you to the ground? how then should I hold up my face to Yo'av your brother?
23
However he refused to turn aside: therefore Aviner with the hinder end of the spear struck him in the body, so that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it happened, that as many as came to the place where `Asa'el fell down and died stood still.
24
But Yo'av and Avishai pursued after Aviner: and the sun went down when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that lies before Giach by the way of the wilderness of Giv`on.
25
The children of Binyamin gathered themselves together after Aviner, and became one band, and stood on the top of a hill.
26
Then Aviner called to Yo'av, and said, "Shall the sword devour forever? Don't you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long shall it be then, before you bid the people return from following their brothers?"
27
Yo'av said, As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely then in the morning the people had gone away, nor followed everyone his brother.
28
So Yo'av blew the shofar; and all the people stood still, and pursued after Yisra'el no more, neither fought they any more.
29
Aviner and his men went all that night through the `Aravah; and they passed over the Yarden, and went through all Bitron, and came to Machanayim.
30
Yo'av returned from following Aviner: and when he had gathered all the people together, there lacked of David's servants nineteen men and `Asa'el.
31
But the servants of David had struck of Binyamin, and of Aviner's men, [so that] three hundred sixty men died.
32
They took up `Asa'el, and buried him in the tomb of his father, which was in Beit-Lechem. Yo'av and his men went all night, and the day broke on them at Hevron.