2 Samuel 18:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Then Joab blew the trumpet, and the troops returned from pursuing Israel, for Joab restrained and spared them.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Then Joab sounded the trumpet, and the troops stopped chasing the Israelites, because Joab held them back.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Then Joab sounded the trumpet, and he held back the people, lest they pursue Israel in their flight, for he was willing to spare the multitude.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ And Joab sounded the trumpet, and kept back the people from pursuing after Israel in their flight, being willing to spare the multitude.

2 Samuel 18:16 Cross References

2 Samuel 18:15

And ten young men that bare Joab's armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.

2 Samuel 2:28

So Joab blew the trumpet, and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.

2 Samuel 20:22

Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. And he blew the trumpet, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.

1 Corinthians 14:8

For if the trumpet give an uncertain voice, who shall prepare himself for war?

Judges 9:55

And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man unto his place.