By stealth — Not openly and triumphantly, as conquerors use to do; but secretly, as if they were afraid and ashamed, lest David should see them, and look upon them with an evil eye, as those that had an hand in killing of his 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.