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


In Context

16 Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night at the fords of the wilderness, but in any wise 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; and a maidservant used to go and tell 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: 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.

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

20 And 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 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 they said unto David, Arise ye, and pass quickly over the water: for thus hath 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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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.

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.