2nd Samuel Chapter 17 verse 19 Holy Bible
And the woman took and spread the covering over the well's mouth, and strewed bruised grain thereon; and nothing was known.
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And a woman put a cover over the hole, and put crushed grain on top of it, and no one had any knowledge of it.
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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.
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And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.
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And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn upon it; and the thing was not known.
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The woman took and spread the covering over the well's mouth, and strewed bruised grain thereon; and nothing was known.
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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.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 19. - A covering; Hebrew, the cover; that is, the usual cover of the cistern, which had been taken off to let the young men descend into it. Over it she spread, not ground corn, but brayed or peeled corn (see Proverbs 27:22), probably barley groats. She was probably busy in removing the husks of the barley with a pestle in a mortar when Jonathan and Ahimaaz sought refuge with her; and thus her whole proceeding was so natural as to excite no suspicions.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(19) Ground Corn.--This word occurs elsewhere only in Proverbs 27:22, and means wheat or barley beaten or ground so as to remove the hull; in this condition it was spread out to dry.
