16Then Joab sounded the trumpet, and the troops stopped pursuing Israel, for Joab halted them.
16Then Joab sounded the trumpet, and the troops stopped pursuing Israel, for Joab halted them.
13 And if I had put my life in jeopardy - and nothing is hidden from the king-you would have kept your distance from me."
14 Joab said, "I'm not going to wait like this for you." So he took three javelins in his hand and plunged them into Absalom's heart while Absalom was still alive in the oak tree.
15 And ten of Joab's armor-bearers surrounded Absalom, struck him and killed him.
16 Then Joab sounded the trumpet, and the troops stopped pursuing Israel, for Joab halted them.
17 They took Absalom, threw him into a big pit in the forest and piled up a large heap of rocks over him. Meanwhile, all the Israelites fled to their homes.
18 During his lifetime Absalom had taken a pillar and erected it in the King's Valley as a monument to himself, for he thought, "I have no son to carry on the memory of my name." He named the pillar after himself, and it is called Absalom's Monument to this day.
18:16And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel: for Joab held back the people.
18:16And Joab sounded the trumpet, and kept back the people from pursuing after Israel in their flight, being willing to spare the multitude.
18:16And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held back the people.
18:16And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab kept back the people.
18:16And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel: for Joab held back the people.
18:16And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing Israel: for Joab restrained the people.
18:16Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held back the people.
18:16And Joab bloweth with a trumpet, and the people turneth back from pursuing after Israel, for Joab hath kept back the people;
18:16And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel: for Joab held back the people.