Then Abner looked behind himself and said, “Is that you, Asahel?” And he said, “It is I!”
Asahel pursued Abner and did not turn to the right or to the left from following Abner.
So Abner said to him, “Turn aside for your own good to your right or to your left, and take hold of one of the young men for yourself, and take for yourself his equipment.” But Asahel was unwilling to turn aside from following him.