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Douay-Rheims Bible

2 Samuel 19:3

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.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Absalom;   David;   Joab;   Parents;   Reproof;   Sorrow;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Joab;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prophet;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Samuel, Books of;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Crime;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Absalom;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So they returned to the city quietly that day like troops come in when they are humiliated after fleeing in battle.
Hebrew Names Version
The people got them by stealth that day into the city, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
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.
Lexham English Bible
The army came secretly into the city on that day because the army was disgraced when they fled in the 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 Century Version
The people came into the city quietly that day. They were like an army that had been defeated in battle and had run away.
New English Translation
That day the people stole away to go to the city the way people who are embarrassed steal away in fleeing from battle.
Amplified Bible
The people stole into the city [of Mahanaim] that day, as people who are humiliated and ashamed steal away when they retreat in battle.
New American Standard Bible
And the people entered the city surreptitiously that day, just as people who are humiliated surreptitiously flee in battle.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the people went that day into the citie secretly, as people confounded hide them selues when they flee in battell.
Legacy Standard Bible
So the people stole away to enter into the city that day, as people who are dishonored steal away when they flee in battle.
Contemporary English Version
The troops were sneaking into Mahanaim, just as if they had run away from a battle and were ashamed.
Complete Jewish Bible
Thus the victory that day was turned into mourning for all the people, for the people heard it said that day that the king was grieving for his son;
Darby Translation
And the people stole away that day into the city, as people steal away when ashamed of fleeing in battle.
Easy-to-Read Version
The people came into the city quietly as if they were the ones who had been defeated in battle.
George Lamsa Translation
And the people concealed themselves as they entered into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee from battle.
Good News Translation
They went back into the city quietly, like soldiers who are ashamed because they are running away from battle.
Literal Translation
And the people stole away on that day to go into the city, as the people steal away who are ashamed as they flee in battle.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And ye people stale awaye the same daye, so that they came not in to the cite: as a people that is put to shame, pycketh them selues awaye, whan they are fled in a battayll.
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.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the people went that day into the citie by stealth, as people confounded to conuey themselues when they flee in battell.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the people; for the people heard say that day: 'The king grieveth for his son.'
King James Version (1611)
And the people gate them by stealth that day into the citie, as people beeing ashamed steale away when they flee in battell.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the people stole away that day to go into the city, as people steal away when they are ashamed as they flee in the battle.
English Revised 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.
Berean Standard Bible
So they returned to the city quietly that day, as people steal away in humiliation after fleeing a battle.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the puple eschewide to entre in to the citee in that dai, as the puple turned and fleynge fro batel is wont to bowe awey.
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;
Update Bible Version
And the people went by stealth that day into the city, as people that are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the people withdrew by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
World English Bible
The people got them by stealth that day into the city, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
New King James Version
And the people stole back into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
New Living Translation
They crept back into the town that day as though they were ashamed and had deserted in battle.
New Life Bible
So the people were quiet as they went in secret into the city that day. They acted like people who are ashamed when they run away from a battle.
New Revised Standard
The troops stole into the city that day as soldiers steal in who are ashamed when they flee in battle.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the people stole away, on that day, to go into the city, - as people steal away who are put to shame, when they flee in battle.
Revised 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 (1995)
So the people went by stealth into the city that day, as people who are humiliated steal away when they flee in battle.

Contextual Overview

1 And it was told Joab, that the king wept and mourned for his son: 2 And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the people: for the people heard say that day: The king grieveth for his son. 3 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. 4 And the king covered his head, and cried with a loud voice: O my son Absalom, O Absalom my son, O my son. 5 Then Joab going into the house to the king, said: Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, that 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. 6 Thou lovest them that hate thee, and thou hatest them that love thee: and thou hast shewn this day that thou carest not for thy nobles, nor for thy servants: and I now plainly perceive that if Absalom had lived, and all we had been slain, then it would have pleased thee. 7 Now therefore arise, and go out, and speak to the satisfaction of thy servants: for I swear to thee by the Lord, that if thou wilt not go forth, there will not tarry with thee so much as one this night: and that will be worse to thee, than all the evils that have befallen thee from thy youth until now. 8 Then the king arose and sat in the gate: and it was told to all the people that the king sat in the gate: and all the people came before the king, but Israel fled to their own dwellings.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

into the city: 2 Samuel 19:32, 2 Samuel 17:24

steal: Genesis 31:27

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 19:8 - for Israel 2 Samuel 19:41 - stolen

Cross-References

Genesis 19:6
Lot went out to them, and shut the door after him, and said:
Genesis 19:8
I have two daughters who, as yet, have not known man; I will bring them out to you, and abuse you them as it shall please you, so that you do no evil to these men, because they are come in under the shadow of my roof.
Genesis 19:28
He looked towards Sodom and Gomorrha, and the whole land of that country: and he saw the ashes rise up from the earth as the smoke of a furnace.
Genesis 19:29
Now when God destroyed the cities of that country, remembering Abraham, he delivered Lot out of the destruction of the cities wherein he had dwelt.
Genesis 21:8
And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast on the day of his weaning.
Exodus 12:15
Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread: in the first day there shall be no leaven in your houses; whosoever shall eat any thing leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall perish out of Israel.
Exodus 12:39
And they baked the meal, which a little before they had brought out of Egypt in dough: and they made hearth cakes unleavened: for it could not be leavened, the Egyptians pressing them to depart, and not suffering them to make any stay; neither did they think of preparing any meat.
Judges 6:19
So Gedeon went in, and boiled a kid, and made unleavened loaves of a measure of flour: and putting the flesh in a basket, and the broth of the flesh into a pot, he carried all under the oak, and presented to him.
1 Samuel 28:24
Now the woman had a fatted calf in the house, and she made haste and killed it: and taking meal, kneaded it, and baked some unleavened bread,
2 Kings 4:8
And there was a day when Eliseus passed by Sunam: now there was a great woman there, who detained him to eat bread: and as he passed often that way, he turned into her house to eat bread.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the people got them by stealth that day into the city,.... Did not march into it in companies, in a public and triumphant manner, as conquerors used to do; but entered in a private manner, one by one, or a very few together, not caring to be seen or known, at least by the king, as fearing they had incurred his displeasure: but

as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle; as if they had been conquered, and not conquerors; nay, had acted a cowardly part, and ran away; and so cared not to be seen, lest they should be reproached, or suffer for their cowardice.


 
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