and handed them over to the Gibeonites. They hanged[a] them on the hill in the presence of the Lord; the seven of them died together. They were executed in the first days of the harvest at the beginning of the barley harvest.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 21:9 Or impaled, or exposed
  2. 2 Samuel 21:9 = March–April

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(A) during the first days of the harvest, just as the barley harvest was beginning.(B)

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