2 Samuel 17:19

Hushai’s Warning Saves David

18But a young man did see them and told Absalom. So the two left quickly and came to the house of a man in Bahurim. He had a well in his courtyard, and they climbed down into it.19Then the man’s wife took a covering and spread it over the mouth of the well, scattering grain over it so nobody would know a thing.

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Berean Standard Bible
Then the man’s wife took a covering and spread it over the mouth of the well, scattering grain over it so nobody would know a thing.
American Standard Version (1901)
And the woman took and spread the covering over the well’s mouth, and strewed bruised grain thereon; and nothing was known.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Douay-Rheims 1899
And 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.
Free Bible Version
His wife took a cloth to cover the well and spread it out over the opening and then scattered grain over it. No one knew the men were there.
Geneva Bible 1599
And the wife tooke and spred a couering ouer the welles mouth, and spred ground corne thereon, that the thing should not be knowen.
King James (Authorized) Version
And the woman took and spread a covering over the well’s mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.
Translation for Translators
The man’s wife took a cloth/mat and covered the well, and scattered grain on top of it in order that no one would know that two men were hiding inside it.
Unlocked Literal Bible
The man's wife took the covering for the well and spread it over the well's opening, and tossed grain over it, so no one knew Jonathan and Ahimaaz were in the well.
Noah Webster Bible
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.
World English Bible
The woman took and spread the covering over the well’s mouth, and spread out crushed grain on it; and nothing was known.
Young's Literal Translation
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.