the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Jerome's Latin Vulgate
4 Regum 17:19
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Saul autem, et illi, et omnes filii Isral, in Valle terebinthi pugnabant adversum Philisthiim.
Tulit autem mulier et expandit velamen super os putei et sparsit super illud ptisanas, et sic res latuit.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
spread a covering: Joshua 2:4-6, 5-24
the thing: Exodus 1:19
Reciprocal: Joshua 2:6 - hid them
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth,.... This woman, very probably, was the man's wife of the house, as Abarbinel notes; who took a cloth, and spread it over the well's mouth, that it could not be seen or known that there was a well there:
and spread ground corn thereon: just taken out of the mill, before it was sifted, while in the bran; or corn unhusked, or just threshed out, in order to be dried in the sun, and then parched; or wheat bruised for that purpose: Josephus says q they were locks of wool she spread:
and the thing was not known; that the young men were in the well.
q Antiqu. l. 7. c. 9. sect. 7.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
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.
