2 Samuel 18:16

And Joab blew the horn, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held back the people.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel: for Joab held back the people.

In Context

15And ten young men that bore Joab's armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.

17And they took Absalom, and cast him into the great pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones; and all Israel fled every one to his tent. —

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Cross References

Numbers 10:2'Make thee two trumpets of silver; of beaten work shalt thou make them; and they shall be unto thee for the calling of the congregation, and for causing the camps to set forward.

2 Samuel 2:28So Joab blew the horn, and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.

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 →

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