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2 Samuel 17:19
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Samuel 17:19"> 19 Y tomando la mujer de la casa una manta, extendióla sobre la boca del pozo, y tendió sobre ella el grano trillado; y no se penetró el negocio.
Y tomando la mujer de la casa una manta, la extendió sobre la boca del pozo, y tendió sobre ella el grano trillado; y nada se supo del asunto.
Y tomando la mujer de la casa una manta, la extendió sobre la boca del pozo, y tendió sobre ella del trigo majado, para que el negocio no fuese entendido.
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 âthe covering,â perhaps âthe hangingâ or âawningâ at the door of the house, as the word seems to mean when spoken of the tabernacle.
Ground corn - Or âpeeled barley,â which she spread out as if for the purpose of drying it in the sun.