2 Samuel 18:16
And Joab sounded the trumpet, and kept back the people from pursuing after Israel in their flight, being willing to spare he multitude.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
15Ten young men, armourbearers of Joab, ran up, and striking him slew him.
Cross References
Numbers 10:2Make thee two trumpets of beaten silver, wherewith thou mayest call together the multitude when the camp is to be removed.
2 Samuel 2:28Then Joab sounded the trumpet, and all the army stood still, and did not pursue after Israel any farther, nor fight any more.
1 Corinthians 14:8For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the 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 →