2 Samuel 18:16
And Joab had the horn sounded, and the people came back from going after Israel, for Joab kept them back.
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15And ten young men, servants of Joab, came round Absalom and put an end to him.
Cross References
Numbers 10:2Make two silver horns of hammered work, to be used for getting the people together and to give the sign for the moving of the tents.
2 Samuel 2:28So Joab had a horn sounded, and all the people came to a stop, and gave up going after Israel and fighting them.
1 Corinthians 14:8For if the war-horn gives out an uncertain note, who will get ready for the fight?
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 →