Sinai2 Samuel 18:16
American Standard Version
And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held back the people.
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2 Samuel 18:16 in other translations
Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held the people back.
2 Samuel 18:16 in context
- 14Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.
- 15And ten young men that bare Joab’s armor compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.
- 16And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held back the people.
- 17And they took Absalom, and cast him into the great pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones: and all Israel fled every one to his tent.
- 18Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar, which is in the king’s dale; for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name; and it is called Absalom’s monument, unto this day.