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2 Samuel 18:16

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

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2 Samuel 18:16 in other translations

KJV King James Version

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

BSB Berean Standard Bible

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

NHEB New Heart English Bible

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

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In context

13 Otherwise, if I had dealt falsely against his life (and there is no matter hidden from the king), then you yourself would have set yourself against me.”

14 Then Joab said, “I’m not going to wait like this with you.” He took three darts in his hand and thrust them through Absalom’s heart while he was still alive in the middle of the oak.

15 Ten young men who bore Joab’s armor surrounded and struck Absalom, and killed him.

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

17 They took Absalom and cast him into a great pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones. Then all Israel fled, each to his own tent.

18 Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar which is in the king’s valley, for he said, “I have no son to keep my name in memory.” He called the pillar after his own name. It is called Absalom’s monument, to this day.

19 Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, “Let me now run and carry the king news, how the LORD has avenged him of his enemies.”

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