2 Samuel 17:19
What does 2 Samuel 17:19 mean?
A plain-English look at 2 Samuel 17:19 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And the woman took and spread the covering over the well’s mouth, and strewed bruised grain thereon; and nothing was known.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And the woman took and spread a covering over the well’s mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And the woman took and spread the covering over the well’s mouth, and strewed bruised grain thereon; and nothing was known.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And a woman put a cover over the hole, and put crushed grain on top of it, and no one had any knowledge of it.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862and 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.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And 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.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And the woman took and spread the covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn on it; and the thing was not known.
Context
v.18But 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.
v.19This passage
v.20And 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 are gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 1:19
And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwife come unto them.
- Joshua 2:4
And the woman took the two men, and hid them; and she said, Yea, the men came unto me, but I knew not whence they were:
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