2 Samuel 18:16

16 Then Joab sounded the trumpet, and the troops stopped pursuing Israel, for Joab halted them.

2 Samuel 18:16 in Other Translations

KJV
16 And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel: for Joab held back the people.
ESV
16 Then Joab blew the trumpet, and the troops came back from pursuing Israel, for Joab restrained them.
NLT
16 Then Joab blew the ram’s horn, and his men returned from chasing the army of Israel.
MSG
16 Joab then blew the ram's horn trumpet, calling off the army in its pursuit of Israel.
CSB
16 Afterwards, Joab blew the ram's horn, and the troops broke off their pursuit of Israel because Joab restrained them.

2 Samuel 18:16 In-Context

14 Joab said, “I’m not going to wait like this for you.” So he took three javelins in his hand and plunged them into Absalom’s heart while Absalom was still alive in the oak tree.
15 And ten of Joab’s armor-bearers surrounded Absalom, struck him and killed him.
16 Then Joab sounded the trumpet, and the troops stopped pursuing Israel, for Joab halted them.
17 They took Absalom, threw him into a big pit in the forest and piled up a large heap of rocks over him. Meanwhile, all the Israelites fled to their homes.
18 During his lifetime Absalom had taken a pillar and erected it in the King’s Valley as a monument to himself, for he thought, “I have no son to carry on the memory of my name.” He named the pillar after himself, and it is called Absalom’s Monument to this day.

Cross References 1

  • 1. S 2 Samuel 2:28; 2 Samuel 20:22
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