3The men stole into the city that day as men steal in who are ashamed when they flee from battle.


In Context

1 Joab was told, "The king is weeping and mourning for Absalom."

2 And for the whole army the victory that day was turned into mourning, because on that day the troops heard it said, "The king is grieving for his son."

3 The men stole into the city that day as men steal in who are ashamed when they flee from battle.

4 The king covered his face and cried aloud, "O my son Absalom! O Absalom, my son, my son!"

5 Then Joab went into the house to the king and said, "Today you have humiliated all your men, who have just saved your life and the lives of your sons and daughters and the lives of your wives and concubines.

2nd Samuel 19:3 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:3And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

19:3And 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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

19:3And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people that are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:3And the people stole away that day into the city, as people steal away when ashamed of fleeing in battle.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

19:3And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people that are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:3And the people withdrew by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:3The people snuck into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

19:3And the people stealeth away, on that day, to go in to the city, as the people steal away, who are ashamed, in their fleeing in battle;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:3And the people got them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.