2 Samuel 18:16 - Easy To Read Version

¹⁶ Joab blew the trumpet {and called} the people to stop chasing {Absalom’s} Israelites.

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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 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 18:15

Joab had ten young soldiers who helped him in battle. These ten men gathered around Absalom and killed him.

2 Samuel 2:28

So Joab blew a trumpet, and his people stopped chasing the Israelites. They did not try to fight the Israelites any more.

2 Samuel 20:22

Then the woman spoke very wisely to all the people of the city. The people cut off the head of Sheba son of Bicri. Then the people threw Sheba’s head over the city wall to Joab.

1 Corinthians 14:8

And \{in a war\}, if the trumpet does not sound clearly, then the soldiers will not know it is time to prepare for fighting.

Judges 9:55

The people of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead. So they all went back home.