2 Samuel 18:16
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New International Version (©1984)
Then Joab sounded the trumpet, and the troops stopped pursuing Israel, for Joab halted them.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then Joab blew the ram's horn, and his men returned from chasing the army of Israel.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Then Joab blew the trumpet, and the troops came back from pursuing Israel, for Joab restrained them.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing Israel, for Joab restrained the people.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Joab blew the ram's horn to stop their [fighting], and the troops returned from pursuing Israel.

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

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

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Joab sounded the trumpet, and kept back the people from pursuing after Israel in their flight, being willing to spare the multitude.

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

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

Webster's Bible Translation
And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing Israel: for Joab restrained the people.

World English Bible
Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held 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;

Geneva Study Bible

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

(d) For he had pity on the people, who were seduced by Absalom's flattery.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

16. Joab blew the trumpet, . and held back the people-Knowing that by the death of the usurper there was no occasion for further bloodshed, he put an end to the pursuit and thereby evinced the temperate policy of his conduct. However harsh and unfeeling to the king Joab may appear, there can be no doubt that he acted the part of a wise statesman in regarding the peace and welfare of the kingdom more than his master's private inclinations, which were opposed to strict justice as well as his own interests. Absalom deserved to die by the divine law (De 21:18, 21), as well as being an enemy to his king and country; and no time was more fitting than when he met that death in open battle.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

18:9-18 Let young people look upon Absalom, hanging on a tree, accursed, forsaken of heaven and earth; there let them read the Lord's abhorrence of rebellion against parents. Nothing can preserve men from misery and contempt, but heavenly wisdom and the grace of God.


2 Samuel 2:28 So Joab blew the trumpet; and all the people halted and pursued Israel no longer, nor did they continue to fight anymore.
2 Samuel 20:22 Then the woman wisely came to all the people. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri and threw it to Joab. So he blew the trumpet, and they were dispersed from the city, each to his tent. Joab also returned to the king at Jerusalem. (NASB ©1995)

Blew Bloweth Halted Held Horn Israel Joab Jo'ab Kept Pursuing Restrained Sounded Stopped Troops Trumpet Turneth

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

blew the trumpet 2Sa 2:28 20:22 Nu 10:2-10 1Co 14:8

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