2 Samuel 13:9

13:9 But when she took the pan and set it before him, he refused to eat. Instead Amnon said, “Get everyone out of here!” ¹  So everyone left. ² 

2 Samuel 18:16

18:16 Then Joab blew the trumpet ³  and the army turned back from chasing Israel, for Joab had called for the army to halt.

2 Samuel 2:28

2:28 Then Joab blew the ram’s horn and all the people stopped in their tracks. ⁴  They stopped chasing Israel and ceased fighting. ⁵ 

2 Samuel 15:10

15:10 Then Absalom sent spies through all the tribes of Israel who said, “When you hear the sound of the horn, you may assume ⁶  that Absalom rules in Hebron.”

2 Samuel 20:1

Sheba’s Rebellion

20:1 Now a wicked man ⁷  named Sheba son of Bicri, a Benjaminite, ⁸  happened to be there. He blew the trumpet ⁹  and said,

“We have no share in David;

we have no inheritance in this son of Jesse!

Every man go home, ¹⁰  O Israel!”

2 Samuel 20:22

20:22 Then the woman went to all the people with her wise advice and they cut off Sheba’s head and threw it out to Joab. Joab ¹¹  blew the trumpet, and his men ¹²  dispersed from the city, each going to his own home. ¹³  Joab returned to the king in Jerusalem.

[13:9]  ¹ tn Heb “from upon me.”

[13:9]  ² tc A few medieval Hebrew mss have “and they removed everyone” (Hiphil preterite with vav consecutive 3cp, rather than Qal preterite with vav consecutive 3cp).

[18:16]  ³ tn Heb “the shophar” (the ram’s horn trumpet).

[2:28]  ⁴ tn Heb “stood.”

[2:28]  ⁵ tn Heb “they no longer chased after Israel and they no longer fought.”

[15:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “say.”

[20:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “a man of worthlessness.”

[20:1]  ⁸ tn The expression used here יְמִינִי (yÿmini) is a short form of the more common “Benjamin.” It appears elsewhere in 1 Sam 9:4 and Esth 2:5. Cf. 1 Sam 9:1.

[20:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “the shophar” (the ram’s horn trumpet). So also v. 22.

[20:1]  ¹⁰ tc The MT reads לְאֹהָלָיו (lÿ’ohalav, “to his tents”). For a similar idiom, see 19:9. An ancient scribal tradition understands the reading to be לְאלֹהָיו (le’lohav, “to his gods”). The word is a tiqqun sopherim, and the scribes indicate that they changed the word from “gods” to “tents” so as to soften its theological implications. In a consonantal Hebrew text the change involved only the metathesis of two letters.

[20:22]  ¹¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Joab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:22]  ¹² tn Heb “they”; the referent (Joab’s men) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:22]  ¹³ tn Heb “his tents.”