2 Samuel 17:19 BSB — MannaFest

2 Samuel 17:19

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.

BSB

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ASV

And the woman took and spread the covering over the well’s mouth, and strewed bruised grain thereon; and nothing was known.

KJV

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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Commentary

2 voices

John Cassian

CONFERENCE 17.19.6-7 (435)

And what shall we say about the deed of the woman who received those who had been sent to King David by the aforementioned Hushai and who hid them in a well, spreading a cover over the mouth of it and making believe that she was drying barley? "They went on," she said, "after having drunk a little water," and by this trick she saved them from the hands of their pursuers. Tell me, then, I ask you, what you would have done if a similar situation had arisen for you who now live under the gospel.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

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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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַתִּקַּ֣ח	va.ti.Kach	and she took	H3947 →
הָאִשָּׁ֗ה	ha.'i.Shah	the woman	H802 →
וַתִּפְרֹ֤שׂ	va.tif.Ros	and she spread out	H6566 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הַמָּסָךְ֙	ha.ma.soKh	the covering	H4539 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
פְּנֵ֣י	pe.Nei	[the] face of	H6440 →
הַבְּאֵ֔ר	ha.be.'Er	the well	H875 →
וַתִּשְׁטַ֥ח	va.tish.Tach	and she spread	H7849 →
עָלָ֖יו	'a.Lav	on it	H5921 →
הָֽרִפ֑וֹת	ha.ri.Fot	the grain[s]	H7383 →
וְלֹ֥א	ve.Lo'	and not	H3808 →
נוֹדַ֖ע	no.Da'	it was known	H3045 →
דָּבָֽר׃	da.Var	anything	H1697 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H875habeerthe well38×

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Exodus 1:19
The midwives answered Pharaoh, “The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before a midwife arrives.”
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- 2 Samuel 17:19–20
  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.
- Joshua 2:4–24
  But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. So she said, “Yes, the men did come to me, but I did not know where they had come from.
- 1 Samuel 21:2
  “The king has given me a mission,” David replied. “He told me no one is to know about the mission or charge. And I have directed my young men to meet me at a…

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