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;


In Context

1 And it is declared to Joab, 'Lo, the king is weeping and mourning for Absalom;'

2 and the salvation on that day becometh mourning to all the people, for the people hath heard on that day, saying, 'The king hath been grieved for his son.'

3 And 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;

4 and the king hath covered his face, yea, the king crieth — a loud voice — 'My son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son.'

5 And Joab cometh in unto the king to the house, and saith, 'Thou hast put to shame to-day the faces of all thy servants, those delivering thy life to-day, and the life of thy sons, and of thy daughters, and the life of thy wives, and the life 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 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 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.