^{19 Ref} The woman took and spread the covering over the well's mouth, and strewed bruised grain thereon; and nothing was known.

^{20 Ref} 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.