Not openly, and orderly, and triumphantly, as conquerors use to do; but secretly, and disorderly, and asunder, as if they were afraid and ashamed, lest David should see them, and look upon them with an evil eye, as those that had a hand in the killing of his dearly beloved son.
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2 Samuel 19:3
3 And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.