2 Samuel 21:9

Overview - 2 Samuel 21
The three years' famine for the Gibeonites ceases, by hanging seven of Saul's sons.
10 Rizpah's kindness unto the dead.
12 David buries the bones of Saul and Jonathan in his father's sepulchre.
15 Four battles against the Philistines, wherein four valiants of David slay four giants.
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2 Samuel 21:9  (King James Version)
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.
 


before the Lord
6 ; 2 Samuel 6:17 2 Samuel 6:21 Exodus 20:5 ; Numbers 35:31-34 ; Deuteronomy 21:1-9 ; 1 Samuel 15:33 ; 2 Kings 24:3 2 Kings 24:4

in the beginning
This happened in Judea about the vernal equinox, or 21st of March.
Ruth 1:22