2 Samuel 19:3
King James Version (KJV)
And the people gat them 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 Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom.
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.
3 And the people gat them 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, which 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 every translation
- KJV King James Version
- And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
- WEB World English Bible
- The people sneaked into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- So they returned to the city quietly that day, as people steal away in humiliation after fleeing a battle.
- ASV American Standard Version
- And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people that are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- 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;
- DBY Darby Translation
- And the people stole away that day into the city, as people steal away when ashamed of fleeing in battle.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And the people withdrew by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.