2 Samuel 19:3
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New International Version (©1984)
The men stole into the city that day as men steal in who are ashamed when they flee from battle.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
So the people went by stealth into the city that day, as people who are humiliated steal away when they flee in battle.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
That day the troops sneaked into the city as if they had fled from battle and were ashamed of it.

King James Bible
And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

American King James Version
And the people got them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

American Standard Version
And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people that are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

Bible in Basic English
And the people made their way back to the town quietly and secretly, as those who are shamed go secretly when they go in flight from the war.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the people shunned the going into the city that day as a people would do that hath turned their backs, and fled away from the battle.

Darby Bible Translation
And the people stole away that day into the city, as people steal away when ashamed of fleeing in battle.

English Revised Version
And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people that are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the people withdrew by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

World English Bible
The people snuck into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

Young's Literal Translation
And the people stealeth away, on that day, to go in to the city, as the people steal away, who are ashamed, in their fleeing in battle;

Geneva Study Bible

And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

Wesley's Notes

19:3 By stealth - Not openly and triumphantly, as conquerors use to do; but secretly, as if they were afraid and ashamed, lest David should see them, and look upon them with an evil eye, as those that had an hand in killing of his beloved son.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

3. the people gat them by stealth . to the city-The rumor of the king's disconsolate condition spread a universal and unseasonable gloom. His troops, instead of being welcomed back (as a victorious army always was) with music and other demonstrations of public joy, slunk secretly and silently into the city, as if ashamed after the commission of some crime.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

19:1-8 To continue to lament for so bad a son as Absalom, was very unwise, and very unworthy. Joab censures David, but not with proper respect and deference to his sovereign. A plain case may be fairly pleaded with those above us, and they may be reproved for what they do amiss, but it must not be with rudeness and insolence. Yet David took the reproof and the counsel, prudently and mildly. Timely giving way, usually prevents the ill effects of mistaken measures.


2 Samuel 19:2 The victory that day was turned to mourning for all the people, for the people heard it said that day, "The king is grieved for his son."
2 Samuel 19:4 The king covered his face and cried out with a loud voice, "O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!" (NASB ©1995)

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And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

into the city 2Sa 19:32 17:24

steal Ge 31:27

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