² Kaj David tien eniris, kune kun siaj edzinoj, Ahxinoam, la Jizreelanino, kaj Abigail, edzino de Nabal, la Karmelanino.

¹⁷ The battle was very severe that day: and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.

¹⁸ The three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild gazelle.

¹⁹ Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he didn't turn to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.

²⁰ Then Abner looked behind him, and said, "Is it you, Asahel?" He answered, "It is I."

²¹ Abner said to him, "Turn aside to your right hand or to your left, and grab one of the young men, and take his armor." But Asahel would not Turn aside from following him.

²² Abner said again to Asahel, "Turn aside from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then should I hold up my face to Joab your brother?"

²³ However he refused to turn aside. Therefore Abner with the back 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. It happened, that as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.

²⁴ But Joab and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun went down when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that lies before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.

²⁵ The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one band, and stood on the top of a hill.

²⁶ Then Abner called to Joab, 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 ask the people to return from following their brothers?"

²⁷ Joab said, "As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely then in the morning the people would have gone away, and not each followed his brother."

²⁸ So Joab blew the trumpet; and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.