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2 Samuele 17:19

Listen to 2 Samuele 17:19
19 Quelli vi si calarono; e la donna di casa prese una coperta, la distese sulla bocca della cisterna, e vi sparse su del grano pesto; cosicché nessuno ne seppe nulla.

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 Gionathan e Ahimaats stavano appostati presso En-Roghel; ed essendo la serva andata ad informarli, essi andarono ad informare il re Davide. Poiché essi non potevano entrare in città in modo palese.
18 Or un giovinetto li avea scorti, e ne aveva avvisato Absalom; ma i due partirono di corsa e giunsero a Bahurim a casa di un uomo che avea nella sua corte una cisterna.
19 Quelli vi si calarono; e la donna di casa prese una coperta, la distese sulla bocca della cisterna, e vi sparse su del grano pesto; cosicché nessuno ne seppe nulla.
20 I servi di Absalom vennero in casa di quella donna, e chiesero: "Dove sono Ahimaats e Gionathan?" La donna rispose loro: "Hanno passato il ruscello". Quelli si misero a cercarli; e, non potendoli trovare, se ne tornarono a Gerusalemme.
21 E come quelli se ne furono andati, i due usciron fuori dalla cisterna, e andarono ad informare il re Davide. Gli dissero: "Levatevi, e affrettatevi a passar l’acqua; perché ecco qual è il consiglio che Ahitofel ha dato a vostro danno".
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