2 Samuel 18:16

And Joab blew the cornet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab restrained the people.

Leeser Tanakh

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, Joab's armor-bearers, encompassed and smote Abshalom, and slew him.

17And they took Abshalom, and cast him down in the forest, into the large pit, and erected upon him a very great heap of stones: and all Israel fled, every one, to his tents.

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Cross References

Numbers 10:2Make unto thyself two trumpets of silver, beaten out of one piece shalt thou make them; and they shall serve thee for the calling of the congregation, and for the setting forward of the camps.

2 Samuel 2:28So Joab blew the cornet, and all the people remained standing still, and pursued no more after Israel, and they continued no more to 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 →

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