2 Samuel 19:3 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

³ Then the king arose and sat in the gate: and it was told to all the people that the king sat in the gate: and all the people came before the king, but Israel fled to their own dwellings.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ The people slipped into the city stealthily that day as humiliated people steal away when they flee in battle.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people that are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

Common English Bible

³ So that day the troops crept back into the city like soldiers creep back ashamed after they’ve fled from battle.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And the people declined to enter the city on that day, in the manner that the people were accustomed to decline if they had turned and fled from battle.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ 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.

2 Samuel 19:3 Cross References

Genesis 31:27

8 Thou hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and daughters: thou hast done foolishly: and now, indeed,

2 Samuel 17:24

9 And honey, and butter, and sheep, and fat calves, and they gave to David and the people that were with him, to eat: for they suspected that the people were faint with hunger and thirst in the wilderness.

2 Samuel 19:2

Now therefore arise, and go out, and speak to the satisfaction of thy servants: for I swear to thee by the Lord, that if thou wilt not go forth, there will not tarry with thee so much as one this night: and that will be worse to thee, than all the evils that have befallen thee from thy youth until now.

2 Samuel 19:32

7 But I beseech thee let thy servant return, and die in my own city, and be buried by the sepulchre of my father, and of my mother. But there is thy servant Chamaam, let him go with thee, my lord, the king, and do to him whatsoever seemeth good to thee.

2 Samuel 19:4

And all the people were at strife in all the tribes of Israel, saying: The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines: and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom.