^19 (A)Then the woman took and spread a covering over the well’s mouth, and spread ground grain on it; and the thing was not known.

²⁰ And when Absalom’s servants came to the woman at the house, they said, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?”

So ^(A)the woman said to them, “They have gone over the water brook.”

And when they had searched and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.