{"id":8480,"date":"2022-09-24T02:36:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T07:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-samuel-1719\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T02:36:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T07:36:30","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-samuel-1719","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-samuel-1719\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Samuel 17:19"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> And the woman took and spread a covering over the well&#8217;s mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known. <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p> <strong> 19<\/strong>. <em> a covering<\/em> ] <strong> The covering<\/strong>, either the usual cover of the cistern, or, as the general use of the word suggests, the curtain which hung in the doorway. See <span class='bible'>Exo 26:36<\/span> (E. V. <em> hanging<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><em> ground corn<\/em> ] Bruised or husked wheat, which she spread out as if to dry. The mode of its preparation is referred to in <span class='bible'>Pro 27:22<\/span>, the only other passage in which the word occurs.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.75em\"><B>A covering &#8211; <\/B>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.<\/P> <P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.75em\"><B>Ground corn &#8211; <\/B>Or peeled barley, which she spread out as if for the purpose of drying it in the sun.<\/P><\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Albert Barnes&#8217; Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P> <B>Spread ground corn thereon, <\/B>under pretence of drying it by the sun; which shows it was summer time. <\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong>And the woman took and spread a covering over the well&#8217;s mouth<\/strong>,&#8230;. This woman, very probably, was the man&#8217;s wife of the house, as Abarbinel notes; who took a cloth, and spread it over the well&#8217;s mouth, that it could not be seen or known that there was a well there:<\/p>\n<p><strong>and spread ground corn thereon<\/strong>: just taken out of the mill, before it was sifted, while in the bran; or corn unhusked, or just threshed out, in order to be dried in the sun, and then parched; or wheat bruised for that purpose: Josephus says q they were locks of wool she spread:<\/p>\n<p><strong>and the thing was not known<\/strong>; that the young men were in the well.<\/p>\n<p>q Antiqu. l. 7. c. 9. sect. 7.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> And the man&#8217;s wife spread a covering (  , the covering which she had close at hand) over the well (over the opening into the cistern), and scattered groats (  , peeled barley: <span class='bible'>Pro 27:22<\/span>) upon it, so that nothing was noticed. The Vulgate explanation is a very good one: &ldquo;<em> quasi siccans ptisanas <\/em> &rdquo; (as if drying peeled barley). <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Keil &amp; Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>(19) <strong>Ground Corn.<\/strong>This word occurs elsewhere only in <span class='bible'>Pro. 27:22<\/span>, and means wheat or barley beaten or ground so as to remove the hull; in this condition it was spread out to dry.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Ellicott&#8217;s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong><em><span class='bible'>2Sa 17:19<\/span><\/em><\/strong><strong>. <\/strong><strong><em>And spread ground corn thereon<\/em><\/strong><strong><\/strong> See the note on <span class='bible'>2Sa 17:28<\/span>. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> 2Sa 17:19 And the woman took and spread a covering over the well&rsquo;s mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.<\/p>\n<p> Ver. 19. <strong> And spread ground corn thereon.<\/strong> ] <em> Grana tusa et commolita; <\/em> meal grist, under pretence it needed drying, being moist; or airing, being musty.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Trapp&#8217;s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>spread a covering: Jos 2:4-6, 5-24 <\/p>\n<p>the thing: Exo 1:19 <\/p>\n<p>Reciprocal: Jos 2:6 &#8211; hid them<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>17:19 And {h} the woman took and spread a covering over the well&#8217;s mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.<\/p>\n<p>(h) Thus God sends help to his, in their greatest dangers.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the woman took and spread a covering over the well&#8217;s mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known. 19. a covering ] The covering, either the usual cover of the cistern, or, as the general use of the word suggests, the curtain which hung in the doorway. 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