2 Samuel 19:3
World English Bible (WEB)
The people sneaked into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
In context
1 Joab was told, “Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Absalom.”
2 The victory that day was turned into mourning among all the people, for the people heard it said that day, “The king grieves for his son.”
3 The people sneaked into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
4 The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, “My son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son!”
5 Joab came into the house to the king, and said, “Today you have shamed the faces of all your servants who today have saved your life, and the lives of your sons and of your daughters, and the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines;
2 Samuel 19:3 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- The people sneaked into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
- 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.
- 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.