2 Samuel 18:16
And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel: for Joab held back the people.In other versions
And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held back the people.
ASV
And Joab had the horn sounded, and the people came back from going after Israel, for Joab kept them back.
BBE
And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab kept back the people.
DBY
Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held back the people.
WEB
And Joab bloweth with a trumpet, and the people turneth back from pursuing after Israel, for Joab hath kept back the people;
YLT
And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel: for Joab held back the people.
ENG
And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing Israel: for Joab restrained the people.
WBT
Then Joab blew the ram’s horn, and the troops broke off their pursuit of Israel because Joab had restrained them.
BSB
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 a great pit in the wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him: and all Israel fled every one to his tent.
18Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a 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 unto this day, Absalom's place.
Cross-references
People in this verse
- Joab