(A)Then the woman took the two men and hid them. So she said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they were from.

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But the woman had taken the two men(A) and hidden them.(B) She said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they had come from.

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19 (A)Then the woman took and spread a covering over the well’s mouth, and spread ground grain on it; and the thing was not known.

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19 His wife took a covering and spread it out over the opening of the well and scattered grain over it. No one knew anything about it.(A)

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20 And when Absalom’s servants came to the woman at the house, they said, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?”

So (A)the woman said to them, “They have gone over the water brook.”

And when they had searched and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.

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20 When Absalom’s men came to the woman(A) at the house, they asked, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?”

The woman answered them, “They crossed over the brook.”[a] The men searched but found no one, so they returned to Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 17:20 Or “They passed by the sheep pen toward the water.”