27 Joab answered, “As surely as God lives, if you had not spoken, the men would have continued pursuing them until morning.”

28 So Joab(A) blew the trumpet,(B) and all the troops came to a halt; they no longer pursued Israel, nor did they fight anymore.

29 All that night Abner and his men marched through the Arabah.(C) They crossed the Jordan, continued through the morning hours[a] and came to Mahanaim.(D)

30 Then Joab stopped pursuing Abner and assembled the whole army. Besides Asahel, nineteen of David’s men were found missing.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 2:29 See Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.

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