2 Samuel 17:20 (WEB)
Absalom’s servants came to the woman to the house; and they said, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” The woman said to them, “They have gone over the brook of water.” When they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.
Fathers and councils · 1
- John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XVII.19Conference XVII
“…hid them in a well, and spread a cloth over its mouth, and pretended that she was drying pearl-barley, and said “They passed on after tasting a little water”; and by this invention saved them from the hands of their pursuers?” — editor's note: Ib. ver. 20.
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Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XVII.19.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XVII.19.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XVII.19.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XVII.19.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XVII.19.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XVII.19.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XVII.19.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XVII.19.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XVII.19.