2 Samuel 19:3
And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
2 Samuel 19:3 in other translations
| BSB | So they returned to the city quietly that day, as people steal away in humiliation after fleeing a battle. |
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| WEB | The people sneaked into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle. |
| ASV | 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 | 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; |
| DARBY | And the people stole away that day into the city, as people steal away when ashamed of fleeing in battle. |
| BBE | And the people made their way back to the town quietly and secretly, as those who are shamed go secretly when they go in flight from the war. |
| Webster | And the people withdrew by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle. |
What does 2 Samuel 19:3 mean?
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Samuel 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…
2 Samuel 19:3 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 2 Samuel 19:3
- Genesis 31:27
Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?
- 2 Samuel 17:24
Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.
- 2 Samuel 19:32
Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.
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Context
- 2 Samuel 19:2
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.
- 2 Samuel 19:3
And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
- 2 Samuel 19:4
But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!
2 Samuel 19:3 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Entróse el pueblo aquel día en la ciudad escondidamente, como suele entrar á escondidas el pueblo avergonzado que ha huído de la batalla. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et la victoire fut changée en deuil pour tout le peuple, ce jour-là, car le peuple entendit ce jour-là qu’on disait: Le roi est affligé à cause de son fils. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und das Volk stahl sich in die Stadt hinein an jenem Tage, wie ein Volk sich wegstiehlt, das zu Schanden geworden, wenn es im Streit geflohen ist. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et declinavit populus in die illa ingredi civitatem, quomodo declinare solet populus versus et fugiens de prælio. |