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Selected Verse: 2 Samuel 17:19 - Basic English

Verse	Translation	Text
2Sa 17:19	Basic English	And a woman put a cover over the hole, and put crushed grain on top of it, and no one had any knowledge of it.
	King James	And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
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.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

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.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]
And the man's wife spread a covering (המּסך, the covering which she had close at hand) over the well (over the opening into the cistern), and scattered groats (ריפות, peeled barley: Pro 27:22) upon it, so that nothing was noticed. The Vulgate explanation is a very good one: "quasi siccans ptisanas" (as if drying peeled barley).

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]

And the man's wife spread a covering (המּסך, the covering which she had close at hand) over the well (over the opening into the cistern), and scattered groats (ריפות, peeled barley: Pro 27:22) upon it, so that nothing was noticed. The Vulgate explanation is a very good one: "quasi siccans ptisanas" (as if drying peeled barley).

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
Spread corn - Under pretence of drying it by the sun: which shews it was summer - time.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]

Spread corn - Under pretence of drying it by the sun: which shews it was summer - time.

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