2 Samuel 18:16
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And Joab sounded the trumpet, and kept back the people from pursuing after Israel in their flight, being willing to spare the multitude.

blew the trumpet

2 Samuel 2:28 Then Joab sounded the trumpet, and all the army stood still, and did not pursue after Israel any farther, nor fight any more.

2 Samuel 20:22 So she went to all the people, and spoke to them wisely: and they cut off the head of Seba the son of Bochri, and cast it out to Joab. And he sounded the trumpet, and they departed from the city, every one to their home: and Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.

Numbers 10:2-10 Make thee two trumpets of beaten silver, wherewith thou mayest call together the multitude when the camp is to be removed. . . .

1 Corinthians 14:8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?

Context
Absalom Killed
15Ten young men, armourbearers of Joab, ran up, and striking him slew him. 16And Joab sounded the trumpet, and kept back the people from pursuing after Israel in their flight, being willing to spare the multitude.17And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the forest, and they laid an exceeding great heap of stones upon him: but all Israel fled to their own dwellings.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 2:28
Then Joab sounded the trumpet, and all the army stood still, and did not pursue after Israel any farther, nor fight any more.

2 Samuel 18:15
Ten young men, armourbearers of Joab, ran up, and striking him slew him.

2 Samuel 20:22
So she went to all the people, and spoke to them wisely: and they cut off the head of Seba the son of Bochri, and cast it out to Joab. And he sounded the trumpet, and they departed from the city, every one to their home: and Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.

Lexicon
Then Joab
יוֹאָב֙ (yō·w·’āḇ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3097: Joab -- 'the LORD is father', three Israelites

blew
וַיִּתְקַ֤ע (way·yiṯ·qa‘)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8628: To clatter, slap, clang, to drive, to become bondsman

the trumpet,
בַּשֹּׁפָ֔ר (baš·šō·p̄ār)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7782: A cornet, curved horn

and the troops
הָעָ֔ם (hā·‘ām)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

broke off
וַיָּ֣שָׁב (way·yā·šāḇ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

their pursuit
מִרְדֹ֖ף (mir·ḏōp̄)
Preposition-m | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 7291: To pursue, chase, persecute

of Israel
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

because
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

Joab
יוֹאָ֖ב (yō·w·’āḇ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3097: Joab -- 'the LORD is father', three Israelites

had restrained them.
חָשַׂ֥ךְ (ḥā·śaḵ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2820: To restrain, refrain, to refuse, spare, preserve, to observe


Additional Translations
Then Joab blew the trumpet, and the troops broke off their pursuit of Israel because Joab had restrained them.And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel: for Joab held back the people.

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

And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing Israel, for Joab spared the people.

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

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

And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing Israel: for Joab restrained the people.

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

And Joab bloweth with a trumpet, and the people turneth back from pursuing after Israel, for Joab hath kept back the people;
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