2 Samuel 18:16
Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held the people back.
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15Ten young men who bore Joab’s armor surrounded and struck Absalom, and killed him.
Cross References
Numbers 10:2“Make two trumpets of silver. You shall make them of beaten work. You shall use them for the calling of the congregation and for the journeying of the camps.
2 Samuel 2:28So Joab blew the trumpet; and all the people stood still and pursued Israel no more, and they fought no more.
1 Corinthians 14:8For if the trumpet gave an uncertain sound, who would prepare himself for war?
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 →