2 Samuel 18:16
And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel: for Joab held back the people.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
15And ten young men that bare Joab’s armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.
Cross References
Numbers 10:2Make thee two trumpets of silver; of beaten work shalt thou make them: and thou shalt 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 after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.
1 Corinthians 14:8For if the trumpet give an uncertain voice, who shall 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 →