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."
— 2 Samuel 19:3, King James 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. ”
“The people snuck into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.”
“That day the people stole away to go to the city the way people who are embarrassed steal away in fleeing from battle.”
“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.”
“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.”
“And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.”
And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom.
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.
And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!
And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day 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;
In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends. For thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes nor servants: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.