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He turned them over to the Gibeonites, and they executed them on a hill before the Lord. The seven of them[a] died[b] together; they were put to death during harvest time—during the first days of the beginning[c] of the barley harvest.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 21:9 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”).
  2. 2 Samuel 21:9 tn Heb “fell.”
  3. 2 Samuel 21:9 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”).