World English Bible
"So Joab blew the trumpet; and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more."
— 2 Samuel 2:28, World English Bible
“So Joab blew a trumpet, and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.”
“So Joab blew the trumpet; and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more. ”
“Then Joab blew the ram’s horn and all the people stopped in their tracks. They stopped chasing Israel and ceased fighting.”
“Then Joab sounded the trumpet, and all the army stood still, and did not pursue after Israel any farther, nor fight any more.”
“So Joab had a horn sounded, and all the people came to a stop, and gave up going after Israel and fighting them.”
“So Joab blew a trumpet, and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.”
The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one band, and stood on the top of a hill.
Then Abner called to Joab, and said, "Shall the sword devour forever? Don't you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long shall it be then, before you ask the people to return from following their brothers?"
Joab said, "As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely then in the morning the people would have gone away, and not each followed his brother."
So Joab blew the trumpet; and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.
Abner and his men went all that night through the Arabah; and they passed over the Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and came to Mahanaim.
Joab returned from following Abner: and when he had gathered all the people together, there lacked of David's servants nineteen men and Asahel.
But the servants of David had struck of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, [so that] three hundred sixty men died.