King James Version
2 Samuel 2:28 in the King James Version says “So Joab blew a trumpet, and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.” — study this verse from 2 Samuel chapter 2 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“So Joab blew a trumpet, and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.”
2 Samuel 2:28 · KJV
Then 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?
And 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. in the: Heb. from the morning gone: or, gone away
So Joab blew a trumpet, and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.
And 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.
And Joab returned from following Abner: and when he had gathered all the people together, there lacked of David's servants nineteen men and Asahel.
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“blew”
H8628to clatter, i.e., slap (the hands together), clang (an instrument); by analogy, to drive (a nail or tent-pin, a dart, etc.); by implication, to become
“stood still”
H5975to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“and all the people”
H5971a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
“and pursued”
H7291to run after (usually with hostile intent; figuratively [of time] gone by)
properly, iteration or continuance; used only adverbially (with or without preposition), again, repeatedly, still, more
“after”
H310properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
“Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
properly, iteration or continuance; used only adverbially (with or without preposition), again, repeatedly, still, more
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