New Revised Standard Version
The troops stole into the city that day as soldiers steal in who are ashamed when they flee in battle.

Contemporary English Version
The troops were sneaking into Mahanaim, just as if they had run away from a battle and were ashamed.

New American Bible
The soldiers stole into the city that day like men shamed by flight in battle.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the people shunned the going into the city that day as a people would do that hath turned their backs, and fled away from the battle.

And the people shunned the going into the city that day as a people would do that hath turned their backs, and fled away from the battle.

into the city

2 Samuel 19:32 Now Berzellai the Galaadite was of a great age, that is to say, fourscore years old, and he provided the king with sustenance when he abode in the camp: for he was a man exceeding rich.

2 Samuel 17:24 But David came to the camp, and Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.

steal

Genesis 31:27 Why wouldst thou run away privately, and not acquaint me, that I might have brought thee on the way with joy, and with songs, and with timbrels, and with harps?