2 Samuel 17:18-20

Revised Geneva Translation

¹⁸ Nevertheless, a young man saw them, and told it to Absalom. Therefore, they both departed quickly and came to a man’s house in Bahurim who had a well in his court, into which they went down.

¹⁹ And the wife took and spread a covering over the well’s mouth, and spread ground corn on it, so that the thing would not be known.

²⁰ And when Absalom’s servants came to the wife, into the house, they said, “Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” And the woman answered them, “They have gone over the brook of water.” And when they had sought them, and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.