And there will be there three sons of Zeruiah, Joab and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was swift in his feet as one of the roes which are in the field.

And Asahel will pursue after Abner; and he turned not to the right or to the left from after Abner.

And Abner will look behind him and say, This thou Asahel? And he will say, I.

And Abner will say to him,. Turn to thyself to the right or to the left, and take hold for thyself from the boys and take to thee his spoils. And Asahel would not turn aside from after him.

And Abner will add yet to say to Asahel, Turn aside for thyself from after me: wherefore shall I strike thee to the earth? and how shall I lift up my face to Joab thy brother?

And he will refuse to turn aside: and Abner will strike him with the extremity of the spear in the belly, and the spear will come forth from behind him, and he will fall there and die in his place: and it will be, all coming to the place where Asahel fell there and he will die, and they will stand.

And Joab turned back from after Abner: and he will gather all the people together and they will review from the servants of David nineteen men and Asahel.

And they will lift up Asahel and bury him in the grave of his father, which was in the House of Bread. And Joab and his men will go all night and it will shine to them in Hebron.

And Abner will turn back to Hebron, and Joab will turn him away to the midst of the gate to speak with him in quiet, and he will strike him there in the belly, and he will die for the blood of Asahel his brother.

And Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner because be slew Asahel their brother in Gibeon in war.

Asahel, brother of Joab, among the thirty; Elhanan, son of Dodo of the House of Bread.