2 Samuel 18:16
And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel, for Joab held back the people.
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15And ten young men who bore Joab's armor encompassed about and smote Absalom, and killed him.
Cross References
Numbers 10:2Make thee two trumpets of silver, of beaten work thou shall make them. And thou shall use them for the calling of the congregation, and for the journeying of the camps.
2 Samuel 2:28So Joab blew the trumpet. And all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither did they fight any more.
1 Corinthians 14:8For also if a trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who will prepare himself for battle?
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 18:10-19
The Death of Absalom. ( b. c. 1023.) 9 And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away. 10 And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak. 11 And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest him, and why didst thou not smite him there to the… Read the whole commentary →