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Selected Verse: 2 Samuel 17:20 - Strong Concordance

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2Sa 17:20 Strong Concordance And when Absalom's [053] servants [05650] came [0935] to the woman [0802] to the house [01004], they said [0559], Where is Ahimaaz [0290] and Jonathan [03083]? And the woman [0802] said [0559] unto them, They be gone over [05674] the brook [04323] of water [04325]. And when they had sought [01245] and could not find [04672] them, they returned [07725] to Jerusalem [03389].
  King James And when Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
As soon as ever she had hid the men she went into the house, as if busy about her usual occupations. Had Absalom's servants, who had had information from some of the people of Bahurim that the men had come to this house, found her in the court it might have directed their attention to the peeled barley.

Over the brook of water - Compare Sa2 16:9 note. The word for "brook" ("Michal") occurs only here. One has been found in this very district, still so called. The woman showed great presence of mind and adroitness in not denying that they had been there.
 
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9 Then said [0559] Abishai [052] the son [01121] of Zeruiah [06870] unto the king [04428], Why should this dead [04191] dog [03611] curse [07043] my lord [0113] the king [04428]? let me go over [05674], I pray thee, and take off [05493] his head [07218].