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


In Context

1 And it was told to Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom.

2 And the victory that day was turned into mourning to all the people: for the people heard it said that day how the king was grieved for his son.

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

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!

5 And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, who this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines;

2 Samuel 19:3 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

19:3The men stole into the city that day as men steal in who are ashamed when they flee from battle.

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 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.