2 Samuel 17:19

And a woman put a cover over the hole, and put crushed grain on top of it, and no one had any knowledge of it.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And the woman took and spread a covering over the well’s mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.

In Context

18But a boy saw them, and gave word of it to Absalom: so the two of them went away quickly, and came to the house of a man in Bahurim who had a water-hole in his garden, and they went down into it.

20And Absalom's servants came to the woman at the house and said, Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said to them, They have gone from here to the stream. And after searching for them, and seeing nothing of them, they went back to Jerusalem.

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Cross References

Joshua 2:4And the woman took the two men and put them in a secret place; then she said, Yes, the men came to me, but I had no idea where they came from;

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 17:16-22

Information Sent to David. ( b. c. 1023.) 15 Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I counselled. 16 Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that are with him. 17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by En-rogel; for they might not be seen to come into the city: and a… Read the whole commentary →

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