‏ 2 Samuel 21:9

9He turned them over to the Gibeonites, and they executed them on a hill before the Lord. The seven of them
tc The translation follows the Qere and several medieval Hebrew mss in reading שְׁבַעְתָּם (shevaʿtam, “the seven of them”) rather than MT שִׁבַעְתִּים (shivaʿtim, “seventy”).
died
tn Heb “fell.”
together; they were put to death during harvest time—during the first days of the beginning
tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading בִּתְחִלַּת (bitkhillat, “in the beginning”) rather than MT תְחִלַּת (tekhillat, “beginning of”).
of the barley harvest.
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