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20 When Abner looked back, he asked, “Are you Asahel?”

“Yes,” Asahel answered.

21 Abner told him, “Leave me alone! Catch one of the young men, and take his weapon.”[a]

But Asahel refused to turn away from him. 22 So Abner spoke again to Asahel. “Stop following me,” he said. “Why should I kill you? How could I look your brother Joab in the face again?”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 2:21 Hebrew meaning uncertain.

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