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.


In Context

16 Now send a message immediately and tell David, 'Do not spend the night at the fords in the desert; cross over without fail, or the king and all the people with him will be swallowed up.' "

17 Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying at En Rogel. A servant girl was to go and inform them, and they were to go and tell King David, for they could not risk being seen entering the city.

18 But a young man saw them and told Absalom. So the two of them left quickly and went to the house of a man in Bahurim. He had a well in his courtyard, and they climbed down into it.

19 His 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.

20 When Absalom's men came to the woman at the house, they asked, "Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?" The woman answered them, "They crossed over the brook." The men searched but found no one, so they returned to Jerusalem.

21 After the men had gone, the two climbed out of the well and went to inform King David. They said to him, "Set out and cross the river at once; Ahithophel has advised such and such against you."

2nd Samuel 17:19 in Other Translations

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 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.