2 Samuel 19:3 - Easy To Read Version

³ The people came into the city quietly. They were like people who had been defeated in battle and had run away.

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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

Why did you run away without telling me? If you had told me, I would have given you a party. There would have been singing and dancing with music.

2 Samuel 17:24

David arrived at Mahanaim.

2 Samuel 19:2

{David’s army} had won the battle that day. But the joy of victory had turned to sadness for all the people. It was a very sad day because the people heard, “The king is very sad for his son.”

2 Samuel 19:32

Barzillai was a very old man. He was 80 years old. He had given the king food and other things when David was staying at Mahanaim. Barzillai {could do this because} he was a very rich man.

2 Samuel 19:4

The king had covered his face. He was crying loudly, “O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!”