2 Samuel 19:3 - The Scriptures 2009

³ And the people stole back into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

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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 flee secretly and deceive me, and not inform me, and I would have sent you away with joy and songs, with tambourine and lyre?

2 Samuel 17:24

And Dawiḏ came to Maḥanayim. And Aḇshalom passed over the Yardĕn, he and all the men of Yisra’ĕl with him.

2 Samuel 19:2

So the deliverance that day was turned into mourning for all the people. For the people heard on that day, saying, “The sovereign has been grieved for his son.”

2 Samuel 19:32

And Barzillai was a very aged man, eighty years old. And he had sustained the sovereign while he was dwelling at Maḥanayim, for he was a very rich man.

2 Samuel 19:4

And the sovereign covered his face, and the sovereign cried out with a loud voice, “O my son Aḇshalom! O Aḇshalom, my son, my son!”