2 Samuel 18:16 “Then Joab blew the ram’s horn, and the troops broke off their pursuit…”

2 Samuel 18:16

Then Joab blew the ram’s horn, and the troops broke off their pursuit of Israel because Joab had restrained them.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel: for Joab held back the people.

World English Bible

Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held the people back.

American Standard Version

And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held back the people.

Geneva Bible 1599

Then Ioab blewe the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel: for Ioab helde backe the people.

Darby Translation

And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab kept back the people.

Young's Literal Translation

And Joab bloweth with a trumpet, and the people turneth back from pursuing after Israel, for Joab hath kept back the people;

Bible in Basic English

And Joab had the horn sounded, and the people came back from going after Israel, for Joab kept them back.

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Cross references

“blew the trumpet”

2 Samuel 2:28 2 Samuel 20:22 Numbers 10:2–10 1 Corinthians 14:8

2 Samuel 2:28 · BSB

So Joab blew the ram’s horn, and all the troops stopped; they no longer pursued Israel or continued to fight.

2 Samuel 20:22 · BSB

Then the woman went to all the people with her wise counsel, and they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bichri and threw it to Joab. So he blew the ram’s horn and his men dispersed from the city, each to his own home. And…

Numbers 10:2–10 · BSB

“Make two trumpets of hammered silver to be used for calling the congregation and for having the camps set out.

1 Corinthians 14:8 · BSB

Again, if the trumpet sounds a muffled call, who will prepare for battle?

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

15And ten young men who carried Joab’s armor surrounded Absalom, struck him, and killed him.

17They took Absalom, cast him into a large pit in the forest, and piled a huge mound of stones over him. Meanwhile, all the Israelites fled, each to his home.

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