2 Samuel 21:9
 2 Samuel 21:9 
New International Version (© 2011)
He handed them over to the Gibeonites, who killed them and exposed their bodies on a hill before the LORD. All seven of them fell together; they were put to death during the first days of the harvest, just as the barley harvest was beginning.

King James Bible
And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.

American Standard Version
And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the mountain before Jehovah, and they fell all'seven together. And they were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of barley harvest.

Young's Literal Translation
and giveth them into the hand of the Gibeonites, and they hang them in the hill before Jehovah; and the seven fall together, and they have been put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, the commencement of barley-harvest.

2 Samuel 21:9 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

In the beginning of barley harvest - This happened in Judea about the vernal equinox, or the 21st of March.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

before the Lord

2 Samuel 20:6 And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom: take you your lord's servants...

2 Samuel 6:17,21 And they brought in the ark of the LORD, and set it in his place, in the middle of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it...

Exodus 20:5 You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD your God am a jealous God...

Numbers 35:31-34 Moreover you shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death...

Deuteronomy 21:1-9 If one be found slain in the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess it, lying in the field...

1 Samuel 15:33 And Samuel said, As the sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women...

2 Kings 24:3,4 Surely at the commandment of the LORD came this on Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh...

in the beginning This happened in Judea about the vernal equinox, or

21st of March.

Ruth 1:22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab...

2 Samuel 21:9 Parallel Commentaries
Barley Beginning Death Delivered Exposed Fell First Gibeonites Gib'eonites Handed Hands Hanged Harvest Hill Killed Mountain Perished Seven Together
Barley Beginning Death Delivered Exposed Fell First Gibeonites Gib'eonites Handed Hands Hanged Harvest Hill Killed Mountain Perished Seven Together
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Exodus 9:31 (The flax and barley were destroyed, since the barley had headed and the flax was in bloom.
Exodus 9:32 The wheat and spelt, however, were not destroyed, because they ripen later.)