Then Abner looked behind him and said, “Is it you, Asahel?” And he answered, “It is I.”
and Asahel pursued Abner, and as he went he turned neither to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.
Abner said to him, “Turn aside to your right hand or to your left, and seize one of the young men, and take his spoil.” But Asahel would not turn aside from following him.