Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man's house in Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went down into it.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
It, as it was level with the ground; so that a cloth being spread over it, prevented all suspicion. It had no water.