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2 Samuele 17:19

Listen to 2 Samuele 17:19
19 E la donna di casa prese una coverta, e la distese sopra la bocca del pozzo, e vi sparse su del grano infranto; e niuno seppe il fatto.

2 Samuele 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.


FOOTNOTES:

F17 Antiqu. l. 7. c. 9. sect. 7.
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2 Samuele 17:19 In-Context

17 Or Gionatan ed Ahimaas se ne stavano presso alla fonte di Roghel; e, perciocchè non potevano mostrarsi, nè entrar nella città, una servente andò, e rapportò loro la cosa; ed essi andarono, e la fecero assapere al re Davide.
18 Ed un garzone li vide, e lo rapportò ad Absalom. Ma amendue camminarono prestamente, e vennero in Bahurim, in casa d’un uomo che avea un pozzo nel suo cortile, e vi si calarono dentro.
19 E la donna di casa prese una coverta, e la distese sopra la bocca del pozzo, e vi sparse su del grano infranto; e niuno seppe il fatto.
20 Ed i servitori di Absalom vennero a quella donna in casa, e le dissero: Dove è Ahimaas e Gionatan? Ed ella disse loro: Hanno passato il guado dell’acqua. Ed essi li cercarono; ma, non trovandoli, se ne ritornarono in Gerusalemme.
21 E, dopo che se ne furono andati, quelli salirono fuor del pozzo, e andarono, e rapportarono la cosa a Davide; e gli dissero: Levatevi, e passate prestamente l’acqua; perciocchè Ahitofel ha dato tal consiglio contro a voi.
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