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.
2 Samuel 17:19
Surrounding context
17:18 Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom. But both of them went away quickly and came to a man's house in Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went down into it.
17:19 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.
17:20 And when Absalom's servants came to the woman at the house, they said, "Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?" So 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.