The people sneaked into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
Parallel translations
- KJV And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
- BSB So they returned to the city quietly that day, as people steal away in humiliation after fleeing a battle.
- NKJV And the people stole back into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
- NASB And the people entered the city surreptitiously that day, just as people who are humiliated surreptitiously flee in battle.
- NLT They crept back into the town that day as though they were ashamed and had deserted in battle.
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- Gen 31:27Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn’t tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;
- 2 Sam 19:32Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old. He had provided the king with sustenance while he stayed at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.
- 2 Sam 17:24Then David came to Mahanaim. Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.
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