Pit. — Properly, well. A stone usually covered the wells (Genesis 29:10), which explains the phrase, “shut her mouth.” Is this merely figurative; or have we here a reminiscence of some terrible crime, analogous to that of Cawnpore?
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Psalms 69:15
15 Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.