2 Samuel 17:17-19

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁷ And Jonathan and Achimaas stayed by the fountain Rogel: and there went a maid and told them: and they went forward, to carry the message to king David, for they might not be seen, nor enter into the city.

¹⁸ But a certain boy saw them, and told Absalom: but they making haste went into the house of a certain man in Bahurim, who had a well in his court, and they went down into it.

¹⁹ And a woman took, and spread a covering over the mouth of the well, as it were to dry sodden barley: and so the thing was not known.