NASB
"Then Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing Israel, for Joab restrained the people."
— 2 Samuel 18:16, NASB
“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. ”
“Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held back the people.”
“Then Joab blew the trumpet and the army turned back from chasing Israel, for Joab had called for the army to halt.”
“And Joab sounded the trumpet, and kept back the people from pursuing after Israel in their flight, being willing to spare the multitude.”
“And Joab had the horn sounded, and the people came back from going after Israel, for Joab kept them back.”
“And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel: for Joab held back the people.”
"Otherwise, if I had dealt treacherously against his life (and there is nothing hidden from the king), then you yourself would have stood aloof."
Then Joab said, "I will not waste time here with you." So he took three spears in his hand and thrust them through the heart of Absalom while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.
And ten young men who carried Joab's armor gathered around and struck Absalom and killed him.
Then Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing Israel, for Joab restrained the people.
They took Absalom and cast him into a deep pit in the forest and erected over him a very great heap of stones. And all Israel fled, each to his tent.
Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself a pillar which is in the King's Valley, for he said, "I have no son to preserve my name." So he named the pillar after his own name, and it is called Absalom's Monument to this day.
Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, "Please let me run and bring the king news that the LORD has freed him from the hand of his enemies."