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.


In Context

16 and now, send hastily, and declare to David, saying, Lodge not to-night in the plains of the wilderness, and also, certainly pass over, lest there be a swallowing up of the king and of all the people who are with him.'

17 And Jonathan and Ahimaaz are standing at En-Rogel, and the maid-servant hath gone and declared to them — and they go and have declared it to king David — for they are not able to be seen to go in to the city.

18 And a youth seeth them, and declareth to Absalom; and they go on both of them hastily, and come in unto the house of a man in Bahurim, and he hath a well in his court, and they go down there,

19 and 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.

20 And the servants of Absalom come in unto the woman to the house, and say, 'Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?' and the woman saith to them, 'They passed over the brook of water;' and they seek, and have not found, and turn back to Jerusalem.

21 And it cometh to pass, after their going on, that they come up out of the well, and go and declare to king David, and say unto David, 'Rise ye, and pass over hastily the waters, 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 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 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.