2 Samuel 17:19 - Easy To Read Version

¹⁹ The man’s wife spread a sheet over the well. Then she covered the well with grain. {The well looked like a pile of grain,} so no person could know {that Jonathan and Ahimaaz were hiding there}.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ And the woman spread a covering over the well's mouth and spread ground corn on it; and the thing was not discovered.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ And the woman took and spread the covering over the well’s mouth, and strewed bruised grain thereon; and nothing was known.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ The man’s wife took a covering and spread it over the well’s opening, then scattered grain over it so no one would notice.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ Then a woman took and spread a covering over the mouth of the well, as if drying hulled barley. And so the matter was hidden.

2 Samuel 17:19 Cross References

Exodus 1:19

The nurses said to the king, “The Hebrew [4] women are much stronger than the Egyptian women. They give birth to their babies before we can go to help them.” (

Exodus 9:33

Moses left Pharaoh and went outside the city. He lifted his arms in prayer to the Lord. And the thunder and hail stopped, and then even the rain stopped.