2 Samuel 17:19 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

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.

2 Samuel 17:19

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.