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.


In Context

16 And now 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 And Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by En-rogel; and the maid went and told them; and they went and told king David, for they might not be seen to come into the city.

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

19 And the woman took and spread the covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn on it; and the thing was not known.

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

21 And it came to pass after they had departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David; and they said to David, Arise and pass quickly over the water; for thus has Ahithophel counselled against you.

2 Samuel 17:19 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

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.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

17:19And the woman took and spread the covering over the well's mouth, and strewed bruised grain thereon; and nothing was known.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

17:19And the woman took and spread the covering over the well's mouth, and strewed bruised corn thereon; and nothing was known.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:19The woman took and spread the covering over the well's mouth, and spread out bruised grain on it; and nothing was known.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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.