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.
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Gill's Exposition
And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites,.... The two sons of Rizpah and the five sons of Merab, two sons of Saul and five grandsons:
and they hanged them in the hill before the Lord;…
Barnes' Notes
In the first days - The barley harvest (about the middle or toward the end of April) was earlier than the wheat harvest Exo 9:31; Rth 1:22.
Adam Clarke
In the beginning of barley harvest - This happened in Judea about the vernal equinox, or the 21st of March.
Here I. Were are told of the injury which Saul had, long before this, done to the Gibeonites, which we had no account of in the history of his reign, nor should we have heard of it here but that it…
Cambridge Bible
in the firstdays] Barley harvest preceded wheat harvest, and began about the middle or end of April. Cp. Exo 9:31-32; Rth 1:22; Rth 2:23.
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