²⁶ Also the mighty warriors were ^(A)Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

⁷ The fourth captain for the fourth month was ^(A)Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him; in his division were twenty-four thousand.

^24 (A)Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

¹⁹ Again there was war at Gob with the Philistines, where ^(A)Elhanan the son of ^[a]Jaare-Oregim the Bethlehemite killed ^(B)the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.

³⁰ So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had killed their brother ^(A)Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

¹⁸ Now the ^(A)three sons of Zeruiah were there: Joab and Abishai and Asahel. And Asahel was ^(B)as fleet of foot ^(C)as a wild gazelle. ¹⁹ So Asahel pursued Abner, and in going he did not turn to the right hand or to the left from following Abner.

²⁰ Then Abner looked behind him and said, “Are you Asahel?”

He answered, “I am.”

²¹ And Abner said to him, “Turn aside to your right hand or to your left, and lay hold on one of the young men and take his armor for yourself.” But Asahel would not turn aside from following him. ²² So Abner said again to Asahel, “Turn aside from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I face your brother Joab?” ²³ However, he refused to turn aside. Therefore Abner struck him ^(D)in the stomach with the blunt end of the spear, so that the spear came out of his back; and he fell down there and died on the spot. So it was that as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died, stood ^(E)still.