2 Samuel 18:16
Then Ioab blewe the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel: for Ioab helde backe the people.
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In Context
15And tenne seruants that bare Ioabs armour, compassed about and smote Absalom, and slewe him.
Cross References
Numbers 10:2Make thee two trumpets of siluer: of an whole piece shalt thou make the, that thou mayest vse them for the assembling of the Congregation, and for the departure of the campe.
2 Samuel 2:28So Ioab blew a trumpet, and all the people stoode still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.
1 Corinthians 14:8And also if the trumpet giue an vncertaine sound, who shall prepare himselfe to battell?
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 →