16And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel: for Joab held back the people.
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So Joab blew a trumpet, and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.
Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and cast it out to Joab. And he blew a trumpet, and they retired from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.
Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps. …
For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-18)Here is Absalom quite at a loss, at his wit’s end first, and then at his life’s end. He that began the fight, big with the expectation of triumphing over David himself, with whom, if he had had him in his power, he would not have dealt gently, is now in the greatest consternation, when he meets the servants of David , 2 Sam. 18:9. Though they were forbidden to meddle with him, he durst not look th…
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