2 Samuel 18:16

And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing Israel, for Joab spared the people.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 armor compassed Absalom, and smote him and slew him.

17And he took Absalom, and cast him into a great cavern in the wood, into a deep pit, and set up over him a very great heap of stones: and all Israel fled every man to his tent.

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Cross References

Numbers 10:2Make to thyself two silver trumpets: thou shalt make them of beaten work; and they shall be to thee for the purpose of calling the assembly, and of removing the camps.

2 Samuel 2:28And Joab sounded the trumpet, and all the people departed, and did not pursue after Israel, and did not fight any longer.

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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