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Joab Reproves David

2 Samuel 19:3

In 11 translations

BSB
So they returned to the city quietly that day, as people steal away in humiliation after fleeing a battle.
KJV
And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
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.
LSV
And the people steals away, on that day, to go into the city, as the people steal away, who are ashamed, in their fleeing 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;
DBY
And the people stole away that day into the city, as people steal away when ashamed of fleeing in battle.
DRC
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.
GNV
And the people went that day into the citie secretly, as people confounded hide them selues when they flee in battell.
JPS19:4
And the people got them by stealth that day into the city, as people that are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
LXXE19:4
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.

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Original-language editions

WLC19:4
וַיִּתְגַּנֵּ֥ב הָעָ֛ם בַּיּ֥וֹם הַה֖וּא לָב֣וֹא הָעִ֑יר כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר יִתְגַּנֵּ֗ב הָעָם֙ הַנִּכְלָמִ֔ים בְּנוּסָ֖ם בַּמִּלְחָמָֽה׃KJV:2Sam.19.3
LXX-Br19:4
Καὶ διεκλέπτετο ὁ λαὸς ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ τοῦ εἰσελθεῖν εἰς τὴν πόλιν, καθὼς διακλέπτεται ὁ λαὸς οἱ αἰσχυνόμενοι ἐν τῷ αὐτοὺς φεύγειν ἐν τῷ πολέμῳ.

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◆ Reign of David

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Genesis 31:27Why did you run away secretly and deceive me, without even telling me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and harps.
  • 2 Samuel 19:32Barzillai was quite old, eighty years of age, and since he was a very wealthy man, he had provided for the king while he stayed in Mahanaim.
  • 2 Samuel 17:24Then David went to Mahanaim, and Absalom crossed the Jordan with all the men of Israel.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 19:4 in some Bibles
  • 19:3 in most Bibles

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