So twelve men, representing Ishbosheth and the tribe of Benjamin, fought twelve of David's men.
Abner said to Joab, “Let's have some of the young men from each side fight an armed contest.” “All right,” Joab answered.
Each man caught his opponent by the head and plunged his sword into his opponent's side, so that all twenty-four of them fell down dead together. And so that place in Gibeon is called “Field of Swords.”
The commander of Saul's army, Abner son of Ner, had fled with Saul's son Ishbosheth across the Jordan to Mahanaim.