So Joab blew the trumpet, and all the troops came to a halt; they no longer pursued Israel, nor did they fight anymore.

So the king set out, with all the people following him, and they halted at the edge of the city.

Then Joab sounded the trumpet, and the troops stopped pursuing Israel, for Joab halted them.

Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the middle of the road, and the man saw that all the troops came to a halt there. When he realized that everyone who came up to Amasa stopped, he dragged him from the road into a field and threw a garment over him.

when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther; here is where your proud waves halt’?

This day they will halt at Nob; they will shake their fist at the mount of Daughter Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.