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

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Parallel Verses

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

English Standard Version
And the people stole into the city that day as people steal in who are ashamed when they flee in battle.

New American Standard Bible
So the people went by stealth into the city that day, as people who are humiliated steal away when they flee in battle.

King James Bible
And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So they returned to the city quietly that day like people come in when they are humiliated after fleeing in battle.

International Standard Version
So men snuck into the city that day like men do who are ashamed after they've run away from a battle.

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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And 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.

Darby Bible Translation
And the people stole away that day into the city, as people steal away when ashamed of fleeing in battle.

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;

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

19:1-8 To continue to lament for so bad a son as Absalom, was very unwise, and very unworthy. Joab censures David, but not with proper respect and deference to his sovereign. A plain case may be fairly pleaded with those above us, and they may be reproved for what they do amiss, but it must not be with rudeness and insolence. Yet David took the reproof and the counsel, prudently and mildly. Timely giving way, usually prevents the ill effects of mistaken measures.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

3. the people gat them by stealth … to the city—The rumor of the king's disconsolate condition spread a universal and unseasonable gloom. His troops, instead of being welcomed back (as a victorious army always was) with music and other demonstrations of public joy, slunk secretly and silently into the city, as if ashamed after the commission of some crime.