Sāmǔĕrjìxià 17:19

19 Nà jiā de fùrén yòng gĕ gaì shàng jǐng kǒu , yòu zaì shàng tóu pū shàng suì maì , shì jiù méiyǒu xiè lòu .

Sāmǔĕrjìxià 17:19 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 17:19

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 ^F17 they were locks of wool she spread:

and the thing was not known;
that the young men were in the well.

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 Antiqu. l. 7. c. 9. sect. 7.

Sāmǔĕrjìxià 17:19 In-Context

17 Nàshí , Yuēnádān hé yà xī mǎ sī zaì yǐn luó jié nàli dĕnghòu , bù gǎn jìn chéng , kǒngpà beì rén kànjian . yǒu yī gè shǐnǚ chūlai , jiāng zhè huà gàosu tāmen , tāmen jiù qù bàoxìn gĕi Dàwèi wáng .

18 Ránér yǒu yī gè tóngzǐ kànjian tāmen , jiù qù gàosu Yēshālóng . tāmen jímáng paó dào bā hù lín mǒu rén de jiā lǐ . nà rén yuàn zhōng yǒu yīkǒu jǐng , tāmen jiù xià dào jǐng lǐ .

19 Nà jiā de fùrén yòng gĕ gaì shàng jǐng kǒu , yòu zaì shàng tóu pū shàng suì maì , shì jiù méiyǒu xiè lòu .

20 Yē Shālóng de púrén lái dào nà jiā , wèn fùrén shuō , yà xī mǎ sī hé Yuēnádān zaì nǎli . fùrén shuō , tāmen guō le hé le . púrén zhǎo tāmen , zhǎo bù zhaó , jiù huí Yēlùsǎlĕng qù le .

21 Tāmen zǒu hòu , èr rén cóng jǐng lǐ shàng lái , qù gàosu Dàwèi wáng shuō , yà xī duō Fú rúcǐ rúcǐ déng jì haì nǐ , nǐmen wù yào qǐlai , kuaì kuaì guō hé .