2 Samuel 19:3 - Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

³ The people came into the city quietly as if they were the ones who had been defeated in battle.

Tuilleadh leaganacha

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 Tagairtí Cros

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 just as Absalom and the Israelites who were with him crossed over the Jordan River.

2 Samuel 19:2

So the joy of victory turned to sadness for everyone. It was a very sad day because the people heard, “The king is mourning for his son.”

2 Samuel 19:32

Barzillai was a very old man, 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 and was crying loudly, “O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!”