2 Samuel 2:28
So Joab blew a trumpet, and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.
So Ioab blew a trumpet, and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.
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2 Samuel 2:28
A wind instrument giving a loud signal.
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Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
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Sense 1: Continuing without interruption, or remaining as before. Sense 2: Quiet, silent, or without motion. Sense 3: Even yet or nevertheless. Sense 4: To make quiet or cause to cease.
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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of pursue. Sense 1: To follow or chase in order to overtake. Sense 2: To seek after and continue earnestly toward an aim.
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1. Later than or following in time or order. 2. Behind. 3. In pursuit of.
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The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called.
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1. Also not; nor, introducing or joining a further negative statement or prohibition. 2. Not either, or none, of the alternatives named, commonly in a neither ... nor construction.
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Contended in battle, conflict, struggle, or opposition.
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2:25¶ And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one troop, and stood on the top of an hill.
2:25¶ And the children of Beniamin gathered themselues together after Abner, and became one troupe, and stood on the top of an hill.
2:26Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?
2:26Then Abner called to Ioab, and said, Shall the sword deuoure for euer? Knowest thou not that it wil be bitternesse in the latter end? How long shall it bee then, yer thou bid the people returne from following their brethren?
2:27And Joab said, As God liveth, unless thou hadst spoken, surely then in the morning the people had gone up every one from following his brother.
2:27And Ioab said, As God liueth, vnlesse thou hadst spoken, surely then †in the morning the people had ‖gone vp euery one from following his brother.
2:28So Joab blew a trumpet, and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.
2:28So Ioab blew a trumpet, and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.
Selected passage2:29And Abner and his men walked all that night through the plain, and passed over Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and they came to Mahanaim.
2:29And Abner and his men walked all that night thorow the plaine, and passed ouer Iordane, and went thorow all Bithron, and they came to Mahanaim.
2:30And Joab returned from following Abner: and when he had gathered all the people together, there lacked of David’s servants nineteen men and Asahel.
2:30And Ioab returned from folowing Abner; and when he had gathered all the people together, there lacked of Dauids seruants nineteene men, and Asahel.
2:31But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner’s men, so that three hundred and threescore men died.
2:31But the seruants of Dauid had smitten of Beniamin and of Abners men, so that three hundred and threescore men died.