19And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.
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And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.
And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were: …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-21)We must now leave David’s enemies pleasing themselves with the thoughts of a sure victory by following Hushai’s counsel, and sending a summons, no doubt, to all the tribes of Israel, to come to the general rendezvous at a place appointed, pursuant to that counsel; and we next find David’s friends consulting how to get him notice of all this, that he might steer his course accordingly. Hushai tells…
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