The woman took and spread the covering over the well’s mouth, and spread out crushed grain on it; and nothing was known.
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The woman took and spread the covering over the well’s mouth, and spread out crushed grain on it; and nothing was 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 the covering over the well's mouth, and strewed groats thereon; and nothing was known.
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Passages linked to 2 Samuel 17:19 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 1:19 The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women aren’t like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them.”
- Joshua 2:4-24 The woman took the two men and hid them. Then she said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I didn’t know where they came from. About the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, the men went out. Where the men went, I don’t know. Pursue them quickly. You may catch up with them.” But she had brought them up to the roof, and hidden them under the stalks of flax which she had laid in order on the roof. The men pursued them along the way to the fords of the Jordan River. As soon as those who pursued them had gone out, they shut the gate. Before they had lain down, she came up to them on the roof. She said to the men, “I know that Yahweh has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you. For we have heard how Yahweh dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom you utterly destroyed. As soon as we had heard it, our hearts melted, and there wasn’t any more spirit in any man, because of you: for Yahweh your God, he is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath. Now therefore, please swear to me by Yahweh, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my father’s house, and give me a true sign; and that you will save alive my father, my mother, my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death.” The men said to her, “Our life for yours, if you don’t talk about this business of ours; and it shall be, when Yahweh gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you.” Then she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was on the side of the wall, and she lived on the wall. She said to them, “Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers find you. Hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned. Afterward, you may go your way.” The men said to her, “We will be guiltless of this your oath which you’ve made us to swear. Behold, when we come into the land, tie this line of scarlet thread in the window which you used to let us down. Gather to yourself into the house your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household. It shall be that whoever goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, and we will be guiltless. Whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is on him. But if you talk about this business of ours, then we shall be guiltless of your oath which you’ve made us to swear.” She said, “Let it be as you have said.” She sent them away, and they departed. Then she tied the scarlet line in the window. They went and came to the mountain, and stayed there three days, until the pursuers had returned. The pursuers sought them all along the way, but didn’t find them. Then the two men returned, descended from the mountain, crossed the river, and came to Joshua the son of Nun. They told him all that had happened to them. They said to Joshua, “Truly Yahweh has delivered all the land into our hands. Moreover, all the inhabitants of the land melt away before us.”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Thus God sendeth succor to his, in their greatest…
Thus God sendeth succor to his, in their greatest dangers.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Sa 17:19 And the woman took and spread a…
2Sa 17:19 And the woman took and spread a covering over the well’s mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.
Ver. 19. And spread ground corn thereon.] Grana tusa et commolita; meal grist, under pretence it needed drying, being moist; or airing, being musty.
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Spread ground corn thereon, under pretence of drying it…
Spread ground corn thereon, under pretence of drying it by the sun; which shows it was summer time.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And when Absalom's servants came to the woman to…
And when Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house,.... Who were sent after then, had intelligence which way they took, and into what house they turned:
they said, where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan? calling them by their names, being persons well known, and as to them, so to the woman of the house, as they supposed:
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and the woman said unto them, they be gone over the brook of water; the river Jordan; so the Targum,"they have already passed over Jordan;''
this was a lie she told them, which is not to be justified; the Vulgate Latin version,"they passed over hastily, having drank a little water;''and so Josephus (r) in some copies:
and when they had sought and could not find them; not only searched that house, but very probably others in Bahurim:
they returned to Jerusalem; to give an account what success they had.
(r) Antiqu. l. 7. c. 9. sect. 7. Hudson. not. in ib.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Spread corn - Under pretense of drying it by…
Spread corn - Under pretense of drying it by the sun: which shews it was summer-time.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain A covering - Hebrew “the covering,” perhaps “the hanging”…
A covering - Hebrew “the covering,” perhaps “the hanging” or “awning” at the door of the house, as the word seems to mean when spoken of the tabernacle.
Ground corn - Or “peeled barley,” which she spread out as if for the purpose of drying it in the sun.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Barley, which was afterwards fried with oil, and eaten.…
Barley, which was afterwards fried with oil, and eaten. Ptisanas may also denote wheat, &c. Grana cantusa. (Theodotion) --- "Figs." (Calmet) --- Septuagint have the original (hariphoth) untranslated. (Haydock)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 19. a covering] The covering, either the usual cover…
19. a covering] The covering, either the usual cover of the cistern, or, as the general use of the word suggests, the curtain which hung in the doorway. See Exo_26:36 (E. V. hanging).
ground corn] Bruised or husked wheat, which she spread out as if to dry. The mode of its preparation is referred to in Pro_27:22, the only other passage in which the word occurs.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (19) Ground Corn.—This word occurs elsewhere only in Pro_27:22,…
(19) Ground Corn.—This word occurs elsewhere only in Pro_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.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain A covering; Hebrew, the cover; that is, the usual…
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 Pro_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.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 the woman of the house
the woman of the house
"the man's wife"
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grain
house
Jerusalem
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