2 Samuel 18:16

Then Joab blew with a horn, and the people returned from pursuing Israel,—for Joab had restrained the people.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

15Then came round ten young men who bare Joab’s armour,—and smote Absolom, and slew him.

17And they took Absolom, and cast him, in the forest, into a large pit, and raised up over him a very great heap of stones,—and, all Israel, fled, every man to his home.

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Cross References

Numbers 10:2Make thee two trumpets of silver, of beaten work, shalt thou make them,—and they shall be unto thee for calling the assembly, and for setting forward the camps.

2 Samuel 2:28So Joab blew with the horn, and all the people stood still, and they neither pursued Israel further,—nor fought any more.

1 Corinthians 14:8For, if also, an uncertain sound, a trumpet, should give, who shall prepare himself for battle?

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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