2 Samuel 19:3 BSB — MannaFest

2 Samuel 19:3

So they returned to the city quietly that day, as people steal away in humiliation after fleeing a battle.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

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.

KJV

And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

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Commentary

1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

David never more needed the hearts of his subjects than now, nor was ever more concerned to secure his interest in their affections; and therefore whatever tended to disoblige them now was the most impolitic thing he could do, and the greatest wrong imaginable to his friends that adhered to him.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּתְגַּנֵּ֥ב	vai.yit.ga.Nev	and it acted stealthily	H1589 →
הָעָ֛ם	ha.'Am	the people	H5971 →
בַּיּ֥וֹם	bai.Yom	on the day	H3117 →
הַה֖וּא	ha.Hu'	<the> that	H1931 →
לָב֣וֹא	la.Vo'	to enter	H935 →
הָעִ֑יר	ha.'Ir	the city	H5892 →
כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר	ka.'a.Sher	just as	H834 →
יִתְגַּנֵּ֗ב	yit.ga.Nev	it acts stealthily	H1589 →
הָעָם֙	ha.'Am	<the> people	H5971 →
הַנִּכְלָמִ֔ים	ha.nikh.la.Mim	who are ashamed	H3637 →
בְּנוּסָ֖ם	be.nu.Sam	when flee they	H5127 →
בַּמִּלְחָמָֽה׃	ba.mil.cha.Mah	in <the> battle	H4421 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 Samuel 19:32
Barzillai 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.
leads to
- 1 Samuel 25:2
  Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.
- Deuteronomy 34:7
  Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not diminished.
- Job 1:3
  and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man of all the people of the East.
- Proverbs 16:31
  Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is attained along the path of righteousness.
Through
Genesis 31:27
Why 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.
leads to
- Exodus 15:20
  Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.
- Genesis 31:3–5
  Then the LORD said to Jacob, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.”
Through
2 Samuel 17:24
Then David went to Mahanaim, and Absalom crossed the Jordan with all the men of Israel.
leads to
- Genesis 32:2
  When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is the camp of God.” So he named that place Mahanaim.
- 2 Samuel 2:8
  Meanwhile, Abner son of Ner, the commander of Saul’s army, took Saul’s son Ish-bosheth, moved him to Mahanaim,

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David Mourns the Death of Absalom — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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06About 2 Samuel

Where the connections lead

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