Nevertheless a lad saw them Who knew them to be favourers of David, and observed that they waited there with design to gain intelligence, and possibly saw the girl speaking privately to them. But they went away quickly Suspecting by the observation which the lad made, and his after conduct, that they were discovered. And came to a man's house in Bahurim Turning out of the public road, as Josephus explains it, they made haste to this village. Which had a well in his court, whither they went down For at that time of the year their wells were in many places dry, or had little water in them. And spread ground corn thereon Under pretence of drying it by the sun, which shows that it was summer- time. Thus the woman effectually concealed them.
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2 Samuel 17:18-19
18 Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man's house in Bahurim, which had a well in his court; whither they went down.
19 And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.