2 Samuel 17:19

Lutherbibel

und das Weib nahm und breitete eine Decke über des Brunnens Loch und breitete Grütze darüber, daß man es nicht merkte.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Und das Weib nahm eine Decke und breitete sie über die Öffnung der Zisterne und streute Grütze darüber, so daß man nichts merkte.

Elberfelder Bibel (1905)
Und das Weib nahm eine Decke und breitete sie über den Brunnen, und streute Grütze darüber aus, so daß nichts bemerkt wurde.

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.