2 Samuel 19:3
“And the people gate them by stealth that day into the citie, as people beeing ashamed steale away when they flee in battell.”
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2 Samuel 19:3 Context
1And it was told Ioab, Beholde, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom. 2And the victorie that day was turned into mourning vnto all the people: for the people heard say that day, how the king was grieued for his sonne. 3And the people gate them by stealth that day into the citie, as people beeing ashamed steale away when they flee in battell. 4But the king couered his face, and the king cried with a loud voyce, O my sonne Absalom, O Absalom my sonne, my sonne. 5And Ioab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy seruants, which this day haue saued thy life, and the liues of thy sonnes, & of thy daughters, and the liues of thy wiues, and the liues of thy concubines,
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And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
- King James Version
So the people went by stealth into the city that day, as people who are humiliated steal away when they flee in battle.
- New American Standard Version (1995)