2 Samuel 19:3 - King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Tuilleadh leaganacha

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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

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

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.

English Standard Version 2016

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

2 Samuel 19:3 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 31:27

Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?

2 Samuel 17:24

Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.

2 Samuel 19:2

And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the people: for the people heard say that day how the king was grieved for his son.

2 Samuel 19:32

Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.

2 Samuel 19:4

But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!