Verse 3

That day the people stole away to go to the city the way people who are embarrassed steal away in fleeing from battle.

Referenced Verses

• Gen 31:27 : 27 Why did you run away secretly and deceive me? Why didn’t you tell me so I could send you off with a celebration complete with singing, tambourines, and harps?
• 2 Sam 17:24 : 24 Meanwhile David had gone to Mahanaim, while Absalom and all the men of Israel had crossed the Jordan River.
• 2 Sam 19:32 : 32 But Barzillai was very old– eighty years old, in fact– and he had taken care of the king when he stayed in Mahanaim, for he was a very rich man.