19And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.
19And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.
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 Enrogel; for they might not be seen to come into the city: and a wench went and told them; and they went and told king David.
18 Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man's house in Bahurim, which had a well in his court; where they went down.
19 And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.
20 And when Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said to them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.
21 And it came to pass, after they were departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David, and said to David, Arise, and pass quickly over the water: for thus has Ahithophel counceled against you.
17:19His wife took a covering and spread it out over the opening of the well and scattered grain over it. No one knew anything about it.
17:19And the woman took and spread a covering over the well’s mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.
17:19And a woman took, and spread a covering over the mouth of the well, as it were to dry sodden barley: and so the thing was not known.
17:19And the woman took and spread the covering over the well's mouth, and strewed bruised grain thereon; and nothing was known.
17:19And the woman took and spread the covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn on it; and the thing was not known.
17:19And the woman took and spread the covering over the well's mouth, and strewed bruised corn thereon; and nothing was known.
17:19And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn upon it; and the thing was not known.
17:19The woman took and spread the covering over the well's mouth, and spread out bruised grain on it; and nothing was known.
17:19and the woman taketh and spreadeth the covering over the face of the well, and spreadeth on it the ground corn, and the thing hath not been known.