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2 Samuel 17:19-21
English Standard Version
2 Samuel 17:19-21
English Standard Version
19 (A)And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth and scattered grain on it, and nothing was known of it. 20 When Absalom's servants came to the woman at the house, they said, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” And the woman said to them, “They have gone over the brook[a] of water.” And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.
21 After they had gone, the men came up out of the well, and went and told King David. They said to David, (B)“Arise, and go quickly over the water, for thus and so has Ahithophel counseled against you.”
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- 2 Samuel 17:20 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
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The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
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