2 Samuel 17:19

And the woman took and spread the covering over the well's mouth, and strewed groats thereon; and nothing was known.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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 lad saw them, and told Absalom; and they went both of them away quickly, and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went down thither.

20And Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house; and they said: 'Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?' And the woman said unto them: 'They are gone over the brook of water.' And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.

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Cross References

Joshua 2:4And the woman took the two men, and hid them; and she said: 'Yea, the men came unto me, but I knew not whence they were;

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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