2 Samuel 19:3DRA
Catholic Bible · DRA · Verse 3 of 43
"And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle."
In context
1And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom.
2And the victory that day was into mourning unto all the people: for the people heard say that day how the king was grieved for his son.
3And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
4But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!
5And 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;